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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
    A practical guide to streaming continual learningAndrea Cossu, Federico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer … Davide BacciuNeurocomputing · University of Pisa · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa · +6
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  2. 2025
    Don't drift away: Advances and Applications of Streaming and Continual LearningAndrea Cossu, Davide Bacciu, Alessio Bernardo … Giacomo ZifferESANN 2025 proceesdings · University of Pisa · Politecnico di Milano · +3
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  3. 2025
    Compression-based kNN for Class Incremental Continual LearningValerie Vaquet, Jonas Vaquet, Fabian Hinder, Barbara HammerESANN 2025 proceesdings · Bielefeld University · Hochschule Bielefeld
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  4. 2024
    Intelligent Learning Rate Distribution to Reduce Catastrophic Forgetting in TransformersPhilip Kenneweg, Alexander Schulz, Sarah Schröder, Barbara HammerSpringer LNCS · Bielefeld University
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  5. 2019
    From Crystallized Adaptivity to Fluid Adaptivity in Deep Reinforcement Learning — Insights from Biological Systems on Adaptive FlexibilityMalte Schilling, Helge Ritter, Frank W. OhlIEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cyberne… · Bielefeld University · Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg · +1
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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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