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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
    Continual Learning of Regions for Efficient Robot Localization on Large MapsMatteo Scucchia, Davide MaltoniIEEE Transactions · University of Bologna
  2. 2025
    Continual Learning in the Presence of RepetitionHamed Hemati, Lorenzo Pellegrini, X.W. Duan … Gido M. van de VenNeural Networks · University of St.Gallen · University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen · +10
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  3. 2024
    Compressed Latent Replays for Lightweight Continual Learning on Spiking Neural NetworksAlberto Dequino, Alessio Carpegna, Davide Nadalini … Francesco ContiIEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) · University of Bologna · Politecnico di Torino
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  4. 2024
    Structured Sparse Back-propagation for Lightweight On-Device Continual Learning on Microcontroller UnitsFrancesco Paissan, Davide Nadalini, Manuele Rusci … Elisabetta FarellaCVPR · Fondazione Bruno Kessler · Politecnico di Torino · +2
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  5. 2022
    ViT-LR: Pushing the Envelope for Transformer-Based on-Device Embedded Continual LearningAlberto Dequino, Francesco Conti, Luca BeniniIEEE 13th International Green and Sustainable Computing C… · University of Bologna
  6. 2022
    Continual Learning in Real-Life ApplicationsGabriele Graffieti, Guido Borghi, Davide MaltoniRA-L · University of Bologna
  7. 2022
    Is Class-Incremental Enough for Continual Learning?Andrea Cossu, Gabriele Graffieti, Lorenzo Pellegrini … Vincenzo LomonacoFrontiers · University of Pisa · Scuola Normale Superiore · +1
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  8. 2021
    CVPR 2020 Continual Learning in Computer Vision Competition: Approaches, Results, Current Challenges and Future DirectionsVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Pau Rodríguez … Davide MaltoniArtificial Intelligence · University of Bologna · Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute · +7
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  9. 2021
    A TinyML Platform for On-Device Continual Learning With Quantized Latent ReplaysLeonardo Ravaglia, Manuele Rusci, Davide Nadalini … Luca BeniniIEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits… · University of Bologna · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · +1
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  10. 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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  11. 2020
    Latent Replay for Real-Time Continual LearningLorenzo Pellegrini, Gabriele Graffieti, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Davide MaltoniIROS · University of Bologna
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  12. 2020
    Memory-Latency-Accuracy Trade-Offs for Continual Learning on a RISC-V Extreme-Edge NodeLeonardo Ravaglia, Manuele Rusci, Alessandro Capotondi … Luca BeniniIEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems · University of Bologna · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · +1
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  13. 2020
    Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning over Small Non-I.I.D. BatchesVincenzo Lomonaco, Davide Maltoni, Lorenzo PellegriniCVPR · University of Bologna
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  14. 2020
    IROS 2019 Lifelong Robotic Vision: Object Recognition Challenge [Competitions]Heechul Bae, Eoin Brophy, Rosa H. M. Chan … Liguang ZhouIEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute · Dublin City University · +9
  15. 2020
    OpenLORIS-Object: A Robotic Vision Dataset and Benchmark for Lifelong Deep LearningQi She, Fan Feng, Xinyue Hao … Rosa H. M. ChanICRA · City University of Hong Kong · Tsinghua University · +4
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  16. 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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  17. 2020
    Online Continual Learning on SequencesGerman I. Parisi, Vincenzo LomonacoStudies in computational intelligence · Universität Hamburg · University of Bologna
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  18. 2019
    Continual Learning for RoboticsTimothée Lesort, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Andrei Stoian … Natalia Díaz-RodríguezInformation Fusion · Thales (Portugal) · Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique · +3
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  19. 2019
    Continuous Learning in Single-Incremental-Task ScenariosDavide Maltoni, Vincenzo LomonacoNeural Networks · University of Bologna
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  20. 2018
    Don't forget, there is more than forgetting: new metrics for Continual LearningNatalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Vincenzo Lomonaco, David Filliat, Davide MaltoniarXiv · Laboratoire d’Informatique et Systèmes · University of Bologna
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  21. 2016
    Semantic video labeling by developmental visual agentsMarco Gori, Marco Lippi, Marco Maggini, Stefano MelacciComputer Vision and Image Understanding · University of Siena · University of Bologna
  22. 2016
    Comparing Incremental Learning Strategies for Convolutional Neural NetworksVincenzo Lomonaco, Davide MaltoniSpringer LNCS · University of Bologna
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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