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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
    Forgetting, plasticity, and co-observation: a third facet of continual learningTimm Hess, Abhishek Jha, Gido M. van de Ven, Tinne TuytelaarsarXiv
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  2. 2025
    Learning continually with representational driftSuzanne van der Veldt, Gido M. van de Ven, Sanne Moorman, Guillaume EtterTrends Open
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  3. 2026
    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  4. 2026
    Putting a Face to Forgetting: Continual Learning meets Mechanistic InterpretabilitySergi Masip, Gido M. van de Ven, Javier Ferrando, Tinne TuytelaarsarXiv
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  5. 2020
    Simple Lifelong Learning MachinesJoshua T. Vogelstein, Jayanta Dey, Hayden S. Helm … Carey E. PriebeTPAMI · Johns Hopkins University · Baylor College of Medicine · +1
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  8. 2025
    Continual Learning Should Move Beyond Incremental ClassificationRupert Mitchell, Antonio Alliegro, Raffaello Camoriano … Martin MundtarXiv
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  9. 2024
    Continual Learning and Catastrophic ForgettingGido M. van de Ven, Nicholas Soures, Dhireesha KudithipudiElsevier · KU Leuven · The University of Texas at San Antonio
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  10. 2024
    Continual Learning in the Presence of RepetitionHamed Hemati, Lorenzo Pellegrini, X.W. Duan … Gido M. van de VenNeural Networks · University of St.Gallen · University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen · +10
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  11. 2023
    Infinite dSprites for Disentangled Continual Learning: Separating Memory Edits from GeneralizationSebastian Dziadzio, Çağatay Yıldız, Gido M. van de Ven … Matthias BethgeCoLLAs
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  12. 2023
    Continual Learning of Diffusion Models with Generative DistillationSergi Masip, Pau Rodríguez, Tinne Tuytelaars, Gido M. van de VenCoLLAs
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  13. 2023
    Continual Learning: Applications and the Road ForwardEli Verwimp, Rahaf Aljundi, Shai Ben-David … Gido M. van de VenTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  15. 2023
    Prediction Error-based Classification for Class-Incremental LearningMichał Zając, Tinne Tuytelaars, Gido M. van de VenICLR
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  16. 2023
    Knowledge Accumulation in Continually Learned Representations and the Issue of Feature ForgettingTimm Hess, Eli Verwimp, Gido M. van de Ven, Tinne TuytelaarsTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  17. 2023
    Deep Continual Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar 23122)T. Tuytelaars, Bing Liu, Vincenzo Lomonaco … Andrea CossuDagstuhl Reports
  18. 2022
    Three types of incremental learningGido M. van de Ven, Tinne Tuytelaars, Andreas S. ToliasNature Machine Intelligence · Baylor College of Medicine · University of Cambridge · +2
  19. 2022
    Continual evaluation for lifelong learning: Identifying the stability gapMatthias De Lange, Gido M. van de Ven, Tinne TuytelaarsICLR
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  20. 2022
    Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machinesDhireesha Kudithipudi, Mario Aguilar-Simon, Jonathan Babb … Hava T. SiegelmannNature Machine Intelligence · The University of Texas at San Antonio · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · +24
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  21. 2021
    Omnidirectional Transfer for Quasilinear Lifelong LearningJayanta Dey, Joshua T Vogelstein, Hayden S. Helm … Carey E. PriebeResearch Square · Johns Hopkins University · Baylor College of Medicine · +1
  22. 2021
    Natural continual learning: success is a journey, not (just) a destinationTa-Chu Kao, Kristopher T. Jensen, Gido M. van de Ven … Guillaume HennequinNeurIPS
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  23. 2021
    Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual LearningVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Cossu … Davide MaltoniCVPR · University of Pisa · University of Bologna · +12
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  24. 2021
    Class-Incremental Learning with Generative ClassifiersGido M. van de Ven, Zhe Li, Andreas S. ToliasCVPR · Baylor College of Medicine
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  25. 2020
    Energy-Based Models for Continual LearningShuang Li, Yilun Du, Gido M. van de Ven, Igor MordatchCoLLAs · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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  26. 2020
    Brain-inspired replay for continual learning with artificial neural networksGido M. van de Ven, Hava T. Siegelmann, Andreas S. ToliasNature Communications · Baylor College of Medicine · University of Cambridge · +3
  27. 2020
  28. 2018
    Three scenarios for continual learningGido M. van de Ven, Andreas S. ToliasNeurIPS
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  29. 2018
    Generative replay with feedback connections as a general strategy for continual learningGido M. van de Ven, Andreas S. ToliasarXiv · Baylor College of Medicine
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  30. 2018
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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