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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
    Dynamic continuous progressive neural networks for evolving streaming time seriesFederico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer, Emanuele Della ValleData Mining and Knowledge Discovery · Politecnico di Milano
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  2. 2026
    Incremental learning for audio classification with Hebbian Deep Neural NetworksRiccardo Casciotti, Francesco De Santis, Alberto Antonietti, Annamaria MesarosICASSP · Tampere University · Politecnico di Milano
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  3. 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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  4. 2025
    cPB: Continuous Piggyback for Streaming Continual Learning with Temporal DependenceReza Paki, Federico Giannini, Emanuele Della ValleSpringer CCIS · Politecnico di Milano
  5. 2025
    Don't Look Back in Anger: MAGIC Net for Streaming Continual Learning with Temporal DependenceFederico Giannini, Sandro D'andrea, Emanuele Della ValleBigData Congress [Services Society] · Politecnico di Milano
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  6. 2025
    Bayesian Federated Learning for Continual TrainingUsevalad Milasheuski, Luca Barbieri, Sanaz Kianoush … Stefano SavazziIEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP) · Politecnico di Milano · Nokia (Germany) · +1
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  7. 2024
    Freeze and Learn: Continual Learning with Selective Freezing for Speech Deepfake DetectionDavide Salvi, Viola Negroni, Luca Bondi … Stefano TubaroICASSP · Politecnico di Milano · Robert Bosch (United States)
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  8. 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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  9. 2024
    Streaming Continual Learning for Unified Adaptive Intelligence in Dynamic EnvironmentsFederico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer, Andrea Cossu, Vincenzo LomonacoIEEE Intelligent Systems · Politecnico di Milano · University of Pisa
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  10. 2026
    cPNN: Continuous Progressive Neural Networks for Evolving Streaming Time SeriesFederico Giannini, Giacomo Ziffer, Emanuele Della ValleSpringer LNCS · Politecnico di Milano
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  11. 2022
    A Hybrid Active-Passive Approach to Imbalanced Nonstationary Data Stream ClassificationKleanthis Malialis, Manuel Roveri, Cesare Alippi … Marios M. PolycarpouIEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) · University of Cyprus · Politecnico di Milano
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  12. 2022
    I Have Seen that Before: Memory Augmented Neural Network for Learning Affordances by AnalogyPaul Schydlo, Laura Santos, Atabak Dehban … José Santos-VictorIEEE International Conference on Development and Learning… · University of Lisbon · Politecnico di Milano
  13. 2022
    Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting of Gated Linear Networks in Continual LearningMatteo Munari, Luca Pasa, Daniele Zambon … Nicolò NavarinIJCNN · University of Padua · Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research · +2
  14. 2022
    Towards lifelong learning of Recurrent Neural Networks for control designFabio Bonassi, Jing Xie, Marcello Farina, Riccardo ScattoliniEuropean Control Conference (ECC) · Politecnico di Milano
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  15. 2021
    Lifelong Hyper-Policy Optimization with Multiple Importance Sampling RegularizationPierre Liotet, Francesco Vidaich, Alberto Maria Metelli, Marcello RestelliAAAI · Politecnico di Milano · University of Padua
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  16. 2021
    Combining Accuracy and Plasticity in Convolutional Neural Networks Based on Resistive Memory Arrays for Autonomous LearningS. Bianchi, Irene Muñoz-Martín, Erika Covi … Daniele IelminiIEEE Journal on Exploratory Solid-State Computational Dev… · Politecnico di Milano · NaMLab (Germany) · +4
  17. 2021
    A Brain-Inspired Homeostatic Neuron Based on Phase-Change Memories for Efficient Neuromorphic ComputingIrene Muñoz-Martín, S. Bianchi, Shahin Hashemkhani … Daniele IelminiFrontiers · Politecnico di Milano
  18. 2020
    A SiOx, RRAM-based hardware with spike frequency adaptation for power-saving continual learning in convolutional neural networksIrene Muñoz-Martín, S. Bianchi, Erika Covi … Daniele IelminiIEEE Symposium on VLSI Technology · Politecnico di Milano · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · +2
  19. 2020
    Bio-Inspired Techniques in a Fully Digital Approach for Lifelong LearningS. Bianchi, Irene Muñoz-Martín, Daniele IelminiFrontiers · Politecnico di Milano
  20. 2019
    Energy-efficient continual learning in hybrid supervised-unsupervised neural networks with PCM synapsesS. Bianchi, Irene Muñoz-Martín, Giacomo Pedretti … Daniele IelminiSymposium on VLSI Technology · Politecnico di Milano · IBM Research - Almaden
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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