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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
    Continual Self-Improvement with Lightweight Experiential Latent MemoriesVaggelis Dorovatas, Nancy Kalaj, Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  3. 2025
    When Data Falls Short: Grokking Below the Critical ThresholdVaibhav Singh, Eugene Belilovsky, Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  4. 2025
    Efficient Few-Shot Continual Learning in Vision-Language ModelsA. Panos, Rahaf Aljundi, Daniel Olmeda Reino, Richard TurnerTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  5. 2024
    Dual-Phase Continual Learning: Supervised Adaptation Meets Unsupervised RetentionVaibhav Singh, Rahaf Aljundi, Eugene BelilovskyTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  6. 2023
    Overcoming Generic Knowledge Loss with Selective Parameter UpdateWenxuan Zhang, Paul Janson, Rahaf Aljundi, Mohamed ElhoseinyCVPR · Kootenay Association for Science & Technology · King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · +1
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  7. 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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  8. 2023
    First Session Adaptation: A Strong Replay-Free Baseline for Class-Incremental LearningAristeidis Panos, Yuriko Kobe, Daniel Olmeda Reino … Richard E. TurnerICCV · University of Cambridge · Toyota Motor Corporation (Switzerland)
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  9. 2023
    Prototype-Sample Relation Distillation: Towards Replay-Free Continual LearningNader Asadi, MohammadReza Davar, Sudhir P. Mudur … Eugene BelilovskyICML
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  10. 2022
    A Simple Baseline that Questions the Use of Pretrained-Models in Continual LearningPaul Janson, Wenxuan Zhang, Rahaf Aljundi, Mohamed ElhoseinyarXiv
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  11. 2022
    Probing Representation Forgetting in Supervised and Unsupervised Continual LearningMohammadReza Davari, Nader Asadi, Sudhir P. Mudur … Eugene BelilovskyCVPR · Concordia University · Toyota Motor Corporation (Switzerland)
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  12. 2021
    Continual Novelty DetectionRahaf Aljundi, Daniel Olmeda Reino, Nikolay Chumerin, Richard E. TurnerCoLLAs
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  13. 2021
    New Insights on Reducing Abrupt Representation Change in Online Continual LearningLucas Caccia, Rahaf Aljundi, Nader Asadi … Eugene BelilovskyICLR
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  14. 2019
    A Continual Learning Survey: Defying Forgetting in Classification TasksMatthias Delange, Rahaf Aljundi, Marc Masana … Tinne TuytelaarsTPAMI · Computer Vision Center · Huawei Technologies (Canada)
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  15. 2021
    Reducing Representation Drift in Online Continual LearningLucas Caccia, Rahaf Aljundi, T. Tuytelaars … Eugene BelilovskyarXiv
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  17. 2021
    Continual learning: A comparative study on how to defy forgetting in classification tasksMatthias De Lange, Rahaf Aljundi, Marc Masana … T. TuytelaarsTPAMI
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  18. 2019
    Online Continual Learning with Maximally Interfered RetrievalRahaf Aljundi, Lucas Caccia, Eugene Belilovsky … Tinne TuytelaarsarXiv · McGill University · Université de Montréal · +1
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  19. 2018
    Task-Free Continual LearningRahaf Aljundi, Klaas Kelchtermans, Tinne TuytelaarsCVPR · KU Leuven
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  20. 2019
    Gradient based sample selection for online continual learningRahaf Aljundi, Min Lin, Baptiste Goujaud, Yoshua BengioNeurIPS · KU Leuven · National University of Singapore · +1
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  21. 2019
    Online continual learning with no task boundariesRahaf Aljundi, Min Lin, Baptiste Goujaud, Yoshua BengioarXiv
  22. 2019
    Task-Free Continual Learning Supplementary MaterialsRahaf Aljundi, Klaas KelchtermansPreprint
  23. 2018
    Selfless Sequential LearningRahaf Aljundi, Marcus Rohrbach, Tinne TuytelaarsICLR
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  24. 2017
    Memory Aware Synapses: Learning what (not) to forgetRahaf Aljundi, Francesca Babiloni, Mohamed Elhoseiny … Tinne TuytelaarsSpringer LNCS · IMEC · KU Leuven · +2
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  25. 2017
    Encoder Based Lifelong LearningAmal Rannen, Rahaf Aljundi, Matthew B. Blaschko, Tinne TuytelaarsICCV · IMEC · KU Leuven
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  26. 2016
    Expert Gate: Lifelong Learning with a Network of ExpertsRahaf Aljundi, Punarjay Chakravarty, Tinne TuytelaarsCVPR · IMEC
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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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