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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
    MemRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic MemoryShengtao Zhang, Jiaqian Wang, Ruiwen Zhou … Muning WenarXiv
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  2. 2025
    MemOS: A Memory OS for AI SystemZhiyu Li, Chunyan Xi, Chunyu Li … Feiyu XiongarXiv
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  3. 2024
    MGSER-SAM: Memory-Guided Soft Experience Replay with Sharpness-Aware Optimization for Enhanced Continual LearningXingyu Li, Bo TangIJCNN · Tulane University · Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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  4. 2023
    AdaER: An Adaptive Experience Replay Approach for Continual Lifelong LearningXingyu Li, Bo Tang, Haifeng LiNeurocomputing · Tulane University · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · +1
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  5. 2024
    Lifelong Learning With Cycle Memory NetworksJian Peng, Dingqi Ye, Bo Tang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Shanghai Zhangjiang Laboratory · Tsinghua University · +5
  6. 2021
    Overcome Anterograde Forgetting with Cycled Memory NetworksJian Peng, Dingqi Ye, Bo Tang … Haifeng LiarXiv
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  7. 2021
    Reviewing continual learning from the perspective of human-level intelligenceYifan Chang, Wenbo Li, Jian Peng … Haifeng LiarXiv
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  8. 2021
    Learning by Active Forgetting for Neural NetworksJian Peng, Xian Sun, Min Deng … Haifeng LiarXiv · Central South University
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  9. 2019
    Overcoming Long-Term Catastrophic Forgetting Through Adversarial Neural Pruning and Synaptic ConsolidationJian Peng, Bo Tang, Hao Jiang … Haifeng LiTNNLS · Central South University · Mississippi State University · +3
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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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