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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
    Model Editing for New Document Integration in Generative Information RetrievalZ C Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xinyu Ma … Zhaochun RenACM Web Conference 2026 · Shandong University · Qingdao University · +4
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  2. 2025
    CorpusBrain++: A Continual Generative Pre-Training Framework for Knowledge-Intensive Language TasksJiafeng Guo, Changjiang Zhou, Ruqing Zhang … Xueqi ChengACM Transactions · Institute of Computing Technology · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · +1
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  3. 2023
    Continual Learning for Generative Retrieval over Dynamic CorporaJiangui Chen, Ruqing Zhang, Jiafeng Guo … Xueqi ChengCIKM · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Amsterdam University of the Arts · +1
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  4. 2023
    Lifelong learning on evolving graphs under the constraints of imbalanced classes and new classesLukas Galke, Iacopo Vagliano, Benedikt Franke … Ansgar ScherpNeural Networks · Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics · Amsterdam University Medical Centers · +3
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  5. 2021
    Kernel Continual LearningMahammad Mahdi Derakhshani, Xiantong Zhen, Ling Shao, Cees G. M. SnoekICML · University of Amsterdam · Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence
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  6. 2021
    Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question AnsweringClaudio Greco, Barbara Plank, Raquel Fernández, Raffaella BernardiSpringer LNCS · University of Trento · IT University of Copenhagen · +1
  7. 2020
    Meta-Learning with Sparse Experience Replay for Lifelong Language LearningNithin Holla, Pushkar Mishra, Helen Yannakoudakis, Ekaterina ShutovaarXiv · Meta (Israel) · King's College London · +1
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  8. 2020
    Continual Learning of Object InstancesKishan Parshotam, Mert KilickayaCVPR · University of Amsterdam
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  9. 2019
    Incremental Reading for Question AnsweringSamira Abnar, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, Tom Kwiatkowski, William W. CohenarXiv · University of Amsterdam · Google (United States)
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  10. 2019
    Psycholinguistics Meets Continual Learning: Measuring Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Question AnsweringClaudio Greco, Barbara Plank, Raquel Fernández, Raffaella BernardiACL · University of Trento · IT University of Copenhagen · +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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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