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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
    Structural generalization and continual learning enabled by factorized entorhinal-hippocampal memory and entorhinal-parietal action circuitsJaedong Hwang, Sujaya Neupane, Mehrdad Jazayeri, Ila FietebioRxiv · McGovern Institute for Brain Research · Coherent (United States) · +1
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  2. 2025
    Hybrid neural networks for continual learning inspired by corticohippocampal circuitsQianqian Shi, Faqiang Liu, Hongyi Li … Rong ZhaoNature Communications · Chinese Institute for Brain Research · Tsinghua University · +1
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  3. 2024
    Orchestrate Latent Expertise: Advancing Online Continual Learning with Multi-Level Supervision and Reverse Self-DistillationHongwei Yan, Liyuan Wang, Kaisheng Ma, Yi ZhongCVPR · McGovern Institute for Brain Research · King Center · +1
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  4. 2021
    Meta-learning synaptic plasticity and memory addressing for continual familiarity detectionDanil Tyulmankov, Guangyu Robert Yang, L. F. AbbottNeuron · Columbia University · Allen Institute for Brain Science · +1
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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