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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
    Reinitializing weights vs units for maintaining plasticity in neural networksJ. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia, Shibhansh Dohare, Jun Luo, R. SuttonarXiv
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  2. 2024
    Loss of plasticity in deep continual learningShibhansh Dohare, Juan Hernandez-Garcia, Qingfeng Lan … Richard S. SuttonNature · University of Alberta · Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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  3. 2023
    Maintaining Plasticity in Deep Continual LearningShibhansh Dohare, J. Fernando Hernandez-Garcia, Parash Rahman … Richard S. SuttonarXiv
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  4. 2021
    Continual Backprop: Stochastic Gradient Descent with Persistent RandomnessShibhansh Dohare, Richard S. Sutton, A. Rupam MahmoodarXiv · University of Alberta
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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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