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The foundational work on continual learning, 1980 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    Distributed Multi-Agent Lifelong LearningPrithviraj Tarale, Edward A. Rietman, Hava T. SiegelmannTMLR · University of Massachusetts Amherst
  2. 2024
    A collective AI via lifelong learning and sharing at the edgeAndrea Soltoggio, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Vladimir Braverman … Soheil KolouriNature Machine Intelligence · Loughborough University · Rice University · +21
  3. 2022
    Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machinesDhireesha Kudithipudi, Mario Aguilar-Simon, Jonathan Babb … Hava T. SiegelmannNature Machine Intelligence · The University of Texas at San Antonio · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · +24
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  4. 2021
    Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological ElementsTyler L. Hayes, Giri P. Krishnan, Maxim Bazhenov … Christopher KananNeural Computation · Rochester Institute of Technology · University of California San Diego · +5
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  5. 2020
    Brain-inspired replay for continual learning with artificial neural networksGido M. van de Ven, Hava T. Siegelmann, Andreas S. ToliasNature Communications · Baylor College of Medicine · University of Cambridge · +3
  6. 2020
    A modeling framework for adaptive lifelong learning with transfer and savings through gating in the prefrontal cortexBen Tsuda, Kay M. Tye, Hava T. Siegelmann, Terrence J. SejnowskiPNAS · Salk Institute for Biological Studies · University of California San Diego · +1
About this index

We keep this list because we read the field and wanted one place to see it. It covers work on continual learning itself, in the core areas of machine learning, and leaves out papers that apply it inside another field, such as medical imaging or fault diagnosis. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. It is seeded from the community lists kept by ContinualAI and by Xialei Liu, then filled out from OpenAlex, and every week a script looks for new papers on OpenAlex and arXiv. A model reads each candidate and decides whether it belongs; a person reviews the additions before they go live. Authors and affiliations come from OpenAlex, so a recent preprint can lack its institutions for a week or two.

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