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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
    Online Lifelong Dynamic Learning Control for Manipulators With Closed Architecture in Multi-Tasking EnvironmentsMingyu Wang, M Wang, Chenguang YangRA-L · Ministry of Education · Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  2. 2026
    LAPS: Improving Incremental LiDAR Mapping Using Active Pooling and Sampling for Neural Distance FieldsDongjae Lee, Wooseong Yang, Yifu Tao … Ayoung KimRA-L · Seoul National University · University of Oxford
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  3. 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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  4. 2026
    SPREAD: Scalable Pre-Trained World Model for Adaptive Dynamics ModelJihun Moon, Seong-Woo KimRA-L · Seoul National University
  5. 2026
    Lifelong Learning-Based MPC for Uncertain Multi-Task ManipulationDimitrios RakovitisRA-L · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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  7. 2025
    FAGR: Feature-Action Generative Replay for Robot Lifelong Imitation LearningYushi Yang, Xiangli Nie, Chang LiuRA-L · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation · +2
  8. 2025
    ProtoGuard-Guided PROPEL: Class-Aware Prototype Enhancement and Progressive Labeling for Incremental 3D Point Cloud SegmentationHaosheng Li, Yuecong Xu, Junjie Chen, Kemi DingRA-L · Southern University of Science and Technology · National University of Singapore
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  9. 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
  10. 2025
  11. 2025
    Playbook: Scalable Discrete Skill Discovery From Unstructured Datasets for Long-Horizon Decision-Making ProblemsMinjae Kang, Mineui Hong, Songhwai OhRA-L · Seoul National University · Carnegie Mellon University
  12. 2025
    VIPeR: Visual Incremental Place Recognition With Adaptive Mining and Continual LearningYuhang Ming, Minyang Xu, Xingrui Yang … Wanzeng KongRA-L · Hangzhou Dianzi University · China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center · +2
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  13. 2024
    Taxonomy-Aware Continual Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Spaces for Open-World PerceptionJulia Hindel, Daniele Cattaneo, Abhinav ValadaRA-L · University of Freiburg
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  14. 2024
    Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting in Robot Continual Learning: A Guided Policy Search Approach Enhanced With Memory-Aware SynapsesQingwei Dong, Peng Zeng, Yunpeng He … Xiaoting DongRA-L · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences
  15. 2024
    MICL: Mutual Information Guided Continual Learning for LiDAR Place RecognitionBinhong Liu, Tao Yang, Yangwang Fang, Zhi YanRA-L · Northwestern Polytechnical University · Université de Bourgogne · +2
  16. 2024
  17. 2023
    Class Incremental Robotic Pick-and-Place via Incremental Few-Shot Object DetectionJieren Deng, Haojian Zhang, Jianhua Hu … Yunkuan WangRA-L · Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · +2
  18. 2023
    CCL: Continual Contrastive Learning for LiDAR Place RecognitionJiafeng Cui, Xieyuanli ChenRA-L · National University of Defense Technology
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  19. 2023
    Continual Pedestrian Trajectory Learning With Social Generative ReplayYa Wu, Ariyan Bighashdel, G. Chen … P. JancuraRA-L
  20. 2022
    Continual Adaptation of Semantic Segmentation Using Complementary 2D-3D Data RepresentationsJonas Frey, Hermann Blum, Francesco Milano … César CadenaRA-L · ETH Zurich
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  21. 2022
    Continual Learning in Real-Life ApplicationsGabriele Graffieti, Guido Borghi, Davide MaltoniRA-L · University of Bologna
  22. 2022
    Controlling Soft Robotic Arms Using Continual LearningFrancesco Piqué, Hari Teja Kalidindi, Lorenzo Fruzzetti … Egidio FaloticoRA-L · Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna · National University of Singapore
  23. 2022
    Improving Pedestrian Prediction Models With Self-Supervised Continual LearningLuzia Knoedler, Chadi Salmi, Hai Zhu … Javier Alonso–MoraRA-L · Delft University of Technology
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  24. 2021
    Continual Multi-Agent Interaction Behavior Prediction With Conditional Generative MemoryHengbo Ma, Yaofeng Sun, Jiachen Li … Chiho ChoiRA-L · Honda (United States) · University of California, Berkeley · +1
  25. 2021
    In Defense of Knowledge Distillation for Task Incremental Learning and Its Application in 3D Object DetectionYun Peng, Yuxuan Liu, Ming LiuRA-L · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  26. 2021
    A Lifelong Learning Approach to Mobile Robot NavigationBo Liu, Xuesu Xiao, Peter StoneRA-L · The University of Texas at Austin · Sony Corporation (United States)
  27. 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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  28. 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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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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