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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
    PADP: progressive and adaptive data pruning for efficient incremental learningBiqing Duan, Di Liu, Zhenli He … Shengfa MiaoScientific Reports · Yunnan University · NTNU Samfunnsforskning
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  2. 2026
    PS-SNN: pattern separation learning for expandable spiking neural networks in class-incremental learningKe Hu, Liangsheng Wen, Tingting Zhang, Hao ZhangScientific Reports · China Mobile (China)
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  3. 2026
    A minimal recurrent neural network models the robustness of interleaved practice on motor sequence learningYoungjo Song, Hakjoo Kim, Taewon KimScientific Reports · Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science · Harvard University · +3
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  5. 2025
    A spatially aware global and local perspective approach for few-shot incremental learningHeng Wu, Zijun Zheng, Laishui Lv … Yinyin WangScientific Reports · Ludong University · Hangzhou Vocational and Technical College · +10
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  6. 2025
    A brain-inspired sequence learning model based on a logicBowen XuScientific Reports · Temple University
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  7. 2025
    Zero-shot incremental learning using spatial-frequency feature representationsJie Ren, Yang Zhao, Weichuan Zhang, Changming SunScientific Reports · Xi'an Polytechnic University · Shaanxi University of Science and Technology · +2
  8. 2025
    Jointly exploring client drift and catastrophic forgetting in dynamic learningNiklas Babendererde, Moritz Fuchs, Camila González … Anirban MukhopadhyayScientific Reports · Technische Universität Darmstadt · Stanford University · +1
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  9. 2025
    Investigating the intrinsic top-down dynamics of deep generative modelsLorenzo Tausani, Alberto Testolin, Marco ZorziScientific Reports · University of Padua · IRCCS San Camillo Hospital
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  10. 2025
    Incremental learning algorithm for dynamic evolution of domain specific vocabulary with its stability and plasticity analysisMansi Jain, Harmeet Kaur, Bhavna Gupta … Vandana KalraScientific Reports · University of Delhi
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  11. 2024
    Continual deep reinforcement learning with task-agnostic policy distillationMuhammad Burhan Hafez, Kerim ErekmenScientific Reports · University of Southampton · Universität Hamburg
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  12. 2024
    Probabilistic metaplasticity for continual learning with memristors in spiking networksFatima Tuz Zohora, Vedant Karia, Nicholas Soures, Dhireesha KudithipudiScientific Reports · The University of Texas at San Antonio
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  13. 2024
    Meta-learning for real-world class incremental learning: a transformer-based approachSandeep Kumar, Amit Sharma, Vikrant Shokeen … Zafar Iqbal KhanScientific Reports · Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology · Institute of Management Technology · +2
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  14. 2024
    Reconciling shared versus context-specific information in a neural network model of latent causesQihong Lu, Tan T Nguyen, Qiong Zhang … Kenneth A. NormanScientific Reports · Princeton University · Washington University in St. Louis · +3
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  15. 2022
    Weighted entropic associative memory and phonetic learningLuis A. Pineda, Rafael MoralesScientific Reports · Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México · Universidad de Guadalajara
  16. 2022
    Stochastic consolidation of lifelong memoryNimrod Shaham, Jay Chandra, Gabriel Kreiman, Haim SompolinskyScientific Reports · Harvard University · Hebrew University of Jerusalem · +1
  17. 2022
    Model architecture can transform catastrophic forgetting into positive transferMiguel Ruiz-GarcíaScientific Reports · Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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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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