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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. 2026
    Robust incremental learning of visual concepts without catastrophic forgettingNicki Barari, Xin Lian, Christopher J. MacLellanCognitive Systems Research · Georgia Institute of Technology · Drexel University · +1
  2. 2025
    Adaptive Anomaly Detection for Non-Stationary Time-Series: A Continual Learning Framework with Dynamic Distribution MonitoringYingxin Ou, Sumeng Huang, Feiyang Wang … Yingyi ShuInternational Conference on Electronic Information Engine… · University of Maryland, College Park · Georgia Institute of Technology · +2
  3. 2025
    CLIMB: Language-Guided Continual Learning for Task Planning with Iterative Model BuildingWalker Byrnes, Miroslav Bogdanović, Avi Balakirsky … Animesh GargICRA · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Toronto · +2
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  4. 2024
    SPrint: Self-Paced Continual Learning with Adaptive Curriculum and Memory ReplayMin-Seon Kim, Ling Liu, Hyuk-Yoon KwonIEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · Seoul National University of Science and Technology · Georgia Institute of Technology
  5. 2024
    Natural Mitigation of Catastrophic Interference: Continual Learning in Power-Law Learning EnvironmentsAtith Gandhi, Raj Sanjay Shah, Vijay Marupudi, Sashank VarmaFrontiers · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  6. 2024
    Adaptive Memory Replay for Continual LearningJames Seale Smith, Lazar Valkov, Shaunak Halbe … Leonid KarlinskyCVPR · IBM (United States) · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  7. 2024
    Continual Diffusion with STAMINA: STack-And-Mask INcremental AdaptersJames Seale Smith, Yen-Chang Hsu, Zsolt Kira … Hongxia JinCVPR · Samsung (United States) · Research!America (United States) · +1
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  8. 2024
    NICE: Neurogenesis Inspired Contextual Encoding for Replay-free Class Incremental LearningMustafa Burak Gürbüz, Jean Michael Moorman, Constantine DovrolisCVPR · Georgia Institute of Technology · Cyprus Institute
  9. 2024
    SHARP: Sparsity and Hidden Activation RePlay for Neuro-Inspired Continual LearningMustafa Burak Gürbüz, Jean Michael Moorman, Constantine DovrolisIEEE International Conference on Development and Learning… · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  10. 2024
    Exploring Soft Prompt Initialization Strategy for Few-Shot Continual Text ClassificationZhehao Zhang, Tong Yu, Handong Zhao … Shuai LiICASSP · Dartmouth College · Dartmouth Hospital · +6
  11. 2023
    Balanced Meta Learning and Diverse Sampling for Lifelong Task-Oriented Dialogue SystemsQiancheng Xu, Min Yang, Ruifeng XuAAAI · Georgia Institute of Technology · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  12. 2023
    Class Incremental Learning for Task-Oriented Dialogue System with Contrastive Distillation on Internal Representations (Student Abstract)Qiancheng Xu, Min Yang, Binzong GengAAAI · Georgia Institute of Technology · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · +1
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  13. 2023
    CODA-Prompt: COntinual Decomposed Attention-Based Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual LearningJames Seale Smith, Leonid Karlinsky, Vyshnavi Gutta … Zsolt KiraCVPR · Georgia Institute of Technology · IBM (United States) · +1
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  14. 2023
    A Closer Look at Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning *James Seale Smith, Junjiao Tian, Shaunak Halbe … Zsolt KiraCVPR · Georgia Institute of Technology · Samsung (United States) · +1
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  15. 2022
    System Design for an Integrated Lifelong Reinforcement Learning Agent for Real-Time Strategy GamesIndranil Sur, Zachary Daniels, Abrar Rahman … Aswin RaghavanInternational Conference on AI-ML-Systems · SRI International · American University · +3
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  16. 2022
    The Surprising Positive Knowledge Transfer in Continual 3D Object Shape ReconstructionAnh Thai, Stefan Stojanov, Zixuan Huang, James M. RehgInternational Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  17. 2022
    Incremental Learning with Differentiable Architecture and Forgetting SearchJames Seale Smith, Zachary Seymour, Han-Pang ChiuIJCNN · Georgia Institute of Technology · SRI International
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  18. 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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  19. 2022
    Provable Lifelong Learning of RepresentationsXinyuan Cao, Weiyang Liu, Santosh VempalaAISTATS · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Cambridge
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  20. 2021
    Always Be Dreaming: A New Approach for Data-Free Class-Incremental LearningJames Smith, Yen-Chang Hsu, Jonathan Balloch … Zsolt KiraICCV · Georgia Institute of Technology · Samsung (United States) · +1
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  21. 2021
    Unsupervised Progressive Learning and the STAM ArchitectureJames Smith, Cameron Taylor, Seth Baer, Constantine DovrolisIJCAI · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  22. 2021
    Memory-Efficient Semi-Supervised Continual Learning: The World is its Own Replay BufferJames Smith, Jonathan Balloch, Yen-Chang Hsu, Zsolt KiraIJCNN · Georgia Institute of Technology · Samsung (United States)
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  23. 2021
    Unsupervised Class-Incremental Learning Through ConfusionShivam Khare, Kun Cao, James M. RehgarXiv · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  24. 2021
    Continual Learning of Knowledge Graph EmbeddingsAngel Daruna, Mehul Gupta, Mohan Sridharan, Sonia ChernovaRA-L · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Birmingham
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  25. 2021
    AILC: Accelerate On-Chip Incremental Learning With Compute-in-Memory TechnologyYandong Luo, Shimeng YuIEEE Transactions · Georgia Institute of Technology
  26. 2021
    Continual Learning for Text Classification with Information Disentanglement Based RegularizationYufan Huang, Yanzhe Zhang, Jiaao Chen … Diyi YangNAACL · Georgia Institute of Technology · Google (United States) · +1
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  27. 2020
    Continual Learning for Task-oriented Dialogue System with Iterative Network Pruning, Expanding and MaskingBinzong Geng, Fajie Yuan, Qiancheng Xu … Min YangACL · University of Science and Technology of China · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +7
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  28. 2021
    Lifelong Learning of Hate Speech Classification on Social MediaJing Qian, Hong Wang, Mai ElSherief, Xifeng YanNAACL · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of California, Santa Barbara
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  29. 2021
    Principal Gradient Direction and Confidence Reservoir Sampling for Continual LearningZhiyi Chen, Tong LinSpringer LNCS · Georgia Institute of Technology · Peking University · +1
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  30. 2019
    Incremental Object Learning From Contiguous ViewsStefan Stojanov, Samarth Mishra, Ngoc Anh Thai … James M. RehgCVPR · Georgia Institute of Technology · Indiana University Bloomington
  31. 2019
    Leveraging Semantics for Incremental Learning in Multi-Relational EmbeddingsAngel Daruna, Weiyu Liu, Zsolt Kira, Sonia ChernovaarXiv · Georgia Institute of Technology
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  32. 2018
    Re-evaluating Continual Learning Scenarios: A Categorization and Case for Strong BaselinesYen-Chang Hsu, Yen‐Cheng Liu, Ramasamy, Anita, Kira, ZsoltarXiv · Georgia Institute of Technology
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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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