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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
    CLARE: Continual Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models via Autonomous Adapter Routing and ExpansionRalf Römer, Y Zhang, Yuming Li, Angela P. SchoelligRA-L · Technical University of Munich
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  2. 2026
    Learning dynamic representations via an optimally-weighted maximum mean discrepancy optimization framework for continual learningKaihui Huang, Runqing Wu, Jinhui Shen … Fei YeKnowledge-Based Systems · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · +2
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  3. 2025
    Continual Learning for Traversability Prediction With Uncertainty-Aware AdaptationHojin Lee, Yunho Lee, Daniel A Duecker, Cheolhyeon KwonRA-L · Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology · Technical University of Munich
  4. 2025
    Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learningYuan Meng, Zhenshan Bing, Xiangtong Yao … Alois KnollNature Machine Intelligence · Technical University of Munich · Nanjing University · +2
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  5. 2021
    Continual Developmental Neurosimulation Using Embodied Computational AgentsBradly Alicea, Rishabh Chakrabarty, Stefan Dvoretskii … Joane ParentIOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Urbana University · +3
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  6. 2024
    Analytic Class Incremental Learning for Sound Source Localization With Privacy ProtectionXinyuan Qian, Xianghu Yue, Jiadong Wang … Haizhou LiIEEE Signal Processing Letters · University of Science and Technology Beijing · National University of Singapore · +4
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  7. 2024
    Continual Domain RandomizationJosip Josifovski, Sayantan Auddy, Mohammadhossein Malmir … Nicolás Navarro-GuerreroIROS · Technical University of Munich · Universität Innsbruck · +1
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  8. 2024
    A Continual and Incremental Learning Approach for TinyML On-device Training Using Dataset Distillation and Model Size AdaptionMarcus Rüb, Philipp Tuchel, Axel Sikora, Daniel Mueller-GritschnederIndustrial Cyber-Physical Systems · Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung · Offenburg University of Applied Sciences · +1
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  9. 2022
    RECALL: Rehearsal-free Continual Learning for Object ClassificationMarkus Knauer, Maximilian Denninger, Rudolph TriebelIROS · Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) · Technical University of Munich
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  10. 2022
    Interactive continual learning for robots: a neuromorphic approachElvin Hajizada, Patrick Berggold, Massimiliano Iacono … Yulia SandamirskayaInternational Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2022 · Intel (Germany) · Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems · +2
  11. 2023
    Meta-Reinforcement Learning in Non-Stationary and Dynamic EnvironmentsZhenshan Bing, David Lerch, Kai Huang, Alois KnollTPAMI · Technical University of Munich · Sun Yat-sen University · +1
  12. 2020
    Neural Topic Modeling with Continual Lifelong LearningPankaj Gupta, Yatin Chaudhary, Thomas A. Runkler, Schütze, HinrichICML · Siemens (Germany) · Technical University of Munich · +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. 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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