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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
    Learning Without Forgetting for Continual Learning in LLMs Through Adaptive LoRA RanksFuli Qiao, Mehrdad MahdaviMachine Learning · Pennsylvania State University
  2. 2026
    Energy-aware spike budgeting for continual learning in spiking neural networks for neuromorphic visionAnika Tabassum Meem, Muntasir Hossain Nadid, Md Zesun Ahmed MiaNeuromorphic Computing and Engineering · University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh · Pennsylvania State University
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  3. 2026
    A minimal recurrent neural network models the robustness of interleaved practice on motor sequence learningYoungjo Song, Hakjoo Kim, Taewon KimScientific Reports · Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science · Harvard University · +3
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  4. 2025
    MTMLD-AWSR: A Novel Multi-Teacher Multi-Level Distillation Approach for Class Incremental Learning in Edge-Cloud SystemsPhuong-Thao Nguyen, Hai Anh Tran, Huy-Hieu Nguyen … Truong X. TranIEEE Cloud Summit · Hanoi University of Science and Technology · Hanoi University · +1
  5. 2025
    Learning Conditional Space-Time Prompt Distributions for Video Class-Incremental LearningXiaohan Zou, Wenchao Ma, Shu ZhaoCVPR · Pennsylvania State University
  6. 2025
    VIBE: Enhancing Unsupervised Continual Learning with Autonomous Novelty DetectionBalachandran Swaminathan, Jack SampsonNeuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) · Pennsylvania State University
  7. 2025
    Analyzing and Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Parameter Efficient TuningX.R. Li, Weijieying Ren, Wei Qin … Richang HongICASSP · Pennsylvania State University · Hefei University of Technology · +1
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  8. 2024
    Continual Learning for Autonomous Robots: A Prototype-based ApproachElvin Hajizada, Balachandran Swaminathan, Yulia SandamirskayaIROS · Intel (Germany) · Pennsylvania State University · +1
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  9. 2024
    EsaCL: An Efficient Continual Learning AlgorithmWeijieying Ren, Vasant HonavarSociety for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks · Pennsylvania State University
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  10. 2023
    CBCL-PR: A Cognitively Inspired Model for Class-Incremental Learning in RoboticsAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerIEEE TCDS · University of Waterloo · Concordia University · +1
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  11. 2021
    F-SIOL-310: A Robotic Dataset and Benchmark for Few-Shot Incremental Object LearningAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerICRA · Pennsylvania State University
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  12. 2021
    Learning Novel Objects Continually Through CuriosityAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerarXiv · Pennsylvania State University
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  13. 2021
    Continual Learning of Visual Concepts for Robots through Limited SupervisionAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerIEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction · Pennsylvania State University
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  14. 2021
    EEC: Learning to Encode and Regenerate Images for Continual LearningAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerICLR · Pennsylvania State University
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  15. 2020
    Tell me what this is: Few-Shot Incremental Object Learning by a RobotAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerIROS · Pennsylvania State University
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  16. 2020
    Storing Encoded Episodes as Concepts for Continual LearningAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerarXiv · Pennsylvania State University
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  17. 2020
    Cognitively-Inspired Model for Incremental Learning Using a Few ExamplesAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerCVPR · Pennsylvania State University
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  18. 2018
    Continual Learning of Recurrent Neural Networks by Locally Aligning Distributed RepresentationsAlexander G. Ororbia, Ankur Mali, C. Lee Giles, Daniel KiferTNNLS · Rochester Institute of Technology · Pennsylvania State University
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  19. 2019
    Hierarchically Structured Meta-learningHuaxiu Yao, Ying Wei, Junzhou Huang, Zhenhui LiICML · Pennsylvania State University
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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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