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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. 2025
    More Than Memory Savings: Zeroth-Order Optimization Mitigates Forgetting in Continual LearningWanhao Yu, Zheng Wang, Shuteng Niu … Li YangWACV · University of North Carolina at Charlotte · University of Houston · +1
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  2. 2026
    Rethinking Continual Learning with Progressive Neural CollapseZheng Wang, Wenhua Yu, Yang Li, Sen LinICLR
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  3. 2024
    Diversity-Representativeness Replay and Knowledge Alignment for Lifelong Vehicle Re-identificationAnqi Cao, Zhijing Wan, Xiao Wang … Xin XuACM Trans. Multim. Comput. Commun. Appl.
  4. 2024PDF ↗
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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