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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2025
    XAI‐Guided Continual Learning: Rationale, Methods, and Future DirectionsMichela Proietti, Alessio Ragno, Roberto CapobiancoWiley · Sapienza University of Rome · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +3
  2. 2025
    Buffer-free Class-Incremental Learning with Out-of-Distribution DetectionSrishti Gupta, Daniele Angioni, Maura Pintor … Battista BiggioPattern Recognition · University of Cagliari · Sapienza University of Rome · +3
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  3. 2025
    Class Incremental Learning with probability dampening and cascaded gated classifierJary Pomponi, Alessio Devoto, Simone ScardapaneNeurocomputing · Sapienza University of Rome
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  4. 2024
    CaSpeR: Latent Spectral Regularization for Continual LearningEmanuele Frascaroli, Riccardo Benaglia, Matteo Boschini … Simone CalderaraPattern Recognition Letters · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · Sapienza University of Rome
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  5. 2023
    Memory Replay For Continual Learning With Spiking Neural NetworksMichela Proietti, Alessio Ragno, Roberto CapobiancoIEEE 33rd International Workshop on Machine Learning for… · Sapienza University of Rome · Sony Corporation (United States)
  6. 2023
    Continual Learning with Invertible Generative ModelsJary Pomponi, Simone Scardapane, Aurelio UnciniNeural Networks · Sapienza University of Rome
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  7. 2022
    Transfer and Continual Supervised Learning for Robotic Grasping Through Grasping FeaturesLuca Monorchio, Marco Capotondi, Mario Corsanici … Francesco PujaSpringer LNCS · Sapienza University of Rome
  8. 2021
    Structured Ensembles: an Approach to Reduce the Memory Footprint of Ensemble MethodsJary Pomponi, Simone Scardapane, Aurelio UnciniNeural Networks · Sapienza University of Rome
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  9. 2021
    Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual LearningVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Cossu … Davide MaltoniCVPR · University of Pisa · University of Bologna · +12
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  10. 2020
    Boosting Deep Open World Recognition by ClusteringDario Fontanel, Fabio Cermelli, Massimiliano Mancini … Barbara CaputoRA-L · Politecnico di Torino · Italian Institute of Technology · +4
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  11. 2020
    Pseudo-Rehearsal for Continual Learning with Normalizing FlowsJary Pomponi, Simone Scardapane, Aurelio UnciniarXiv · Sapienza University of Rome
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  12. 2020
    Modeling the Background for Incremental Learning in Semantic SegmentationFabio Cermelli, Massimiliano Mancini, Samuel Rota Bulò … Barbara CaputoCVPR · Politecnico di Torino · Italian Institute of Technology · +3
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  13. 2020
    Efficient Continual Learning in Neural Networks with Embedding RegularizationJary Pomponi, Simone Scardapane, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Aurelio UnciniNeurocomputing · Sapienza University of Rome · University of Bologna
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  14. 2019
    Adding New Tasks to a Single Network with Weight Trasformations using Binary MasksMassimiliano Mancini, Elisa Ricci, Barbara Caputo, Samuel Rota BulòSpringer LNCS · Fondazione Bruno Kessler · Sapienza University of Rome · +2
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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. It lists only 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. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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