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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
    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  2. 2024
    One VLM to Keep it Learning: Generation and Balancing for Data-free Continual Visual Question AnsweringDeepayan Das, Davide Talon, Massimiliano Mancini … Elisa RicciWACV · University of Trento · Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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  3. 2023
    On the Effectiveness of LayerNorm Tuning for Continual Learning in Vision TransformersThomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini, Karteek Alahari … Elisa RicciICCV · University of Trento · Institut polytechnique de Grenoble · +5
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  4. 2022
    A soft nearest-neighbor framework for continual semi-supervised learningZhiqi Kang, Enrico Fini, Moin Nabi … Karteek AlahariICCV · Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique · University of Trento · +2
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  5. 2022
    Class-incremental Novel Class DiscoverySubhankar Roy, Mingxuan Liu, Zhun Zhong … Elisa RicciECCV
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  6. 2021
    Self-Supervised Models are Continual LearnersEnrico Fini, Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Xavier Alameda-Pineda … Julien MairalCVPR · University of Trento · Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique · +1
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  7. 2022
    Continual Attentive Fusion for Incremental Learning in Semantic SegmentationGuanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu … Elisa RicciIEEE Trans. Multimedia · University of Trento · Harbin Institute of Technology · +5
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  8. 2022
    Uncertainty-aware Contrastive Distillation for Incremental Semantic SegmentationGuanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu … Elisa RicciTPAMI · Harbin Institute of Technology · University of Trento · +2
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  9. 2021
    Modeling the Background for Incremental and Weakly-Supervised Semantic SegmentationFabio Cermelli, Massimiliano Mancini, Samuel Rota Bulo … Barbara CaputoTPAMI · Politecnico di Torino · TH Bingen University of Applied Sciences · +3
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  10. 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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  11. 2020
    Modeling the Background for Incremental Learning in Semantic SegmentationFabio Cermelli, Massimiliano Mancini, Samuel Rota Bulò … Barbara CaputoCVPR · Politecnico di Torino · Italian Institute of Technology · +3
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  12. 2020
    Online Continual Learning under Extreme Memory ConstraintsEnrico Fini, Stéphane Lathuilière, Enver Sangineto … Elisa RicciSpringer LNCS · University of Trento · Télécom Paris · +2
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  13. 2018
    Adding New Tasks to a Single Network with Weight Trasformations using Binary MasksMassimiliano Mancini, Elisa Ricci, Barbara Caputo, Samuel Rota BulòSpringer LNCS · Fondazione Bruno Kessler · Sapienza University of Rome · +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 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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