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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Discrete synaptic states and context-modulated readouts support continual learningYuan Gao, Ştefan Mihalaş, Denis TurcubioRxiv · University of Washington · Allen Institute
  2. 2026
    Plateau-gated one-shot plasticity supports continual recognition memoryGuanchun Li, Sandro Romani, Jeffrey C. MageebioRxiv · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Janelia Research Campus
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  3. 2026
    Structural generalization and continual learning enabled by factorized entorhinal-hippocampal memory and entorhinal-parietal action circuitsJaedong Hwang, Sujaya Neupane, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ila FietebioRxiv · McGovern Institute for Brain Research · Coherent (United States) · +1
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  4. 2026
    A complementary learning system for continual episodic memory in large language modelsXu Pan, Ely Hahami, Roy Siegelmann, Haim SompolinskybioRxiv · Harvard University Press · Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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  6. 2026
    Mistake gating leads to energy and memory efficient continual learningAaron Pache, Mark C. W. van RossumbioRxiv · University of Nottingham
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  7. 2026
    Training constrains neural routes to knowledge assemblyQiyao Wang, Compton French, Pooja Bansiya … Stephanie NellibioRxiv · Occidental College
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  8. 2026
    Learning sculpts orthogonal task manifolds for continual skill learning in recurrent networksZihan Liu, Anno C. Kurth, Yuma Osako, Toshitake AsabukibioRxiv · Chinese University of Hong Kong · RIKEN Center for Brain Science · +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. It lists only 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. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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