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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. 2025
    Towards Unbiased Continual Learning: Avoiding Forgetting in the Presence of Spurious CorrelationsGiacomo Capitani, Lorenzo Bonicelli, Angelo Porrello … Elisa FicarraWACV · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  2. 2023
    CaSpeR: Latent Spectral Regularization for Continual LearningEmanuele Frascaroli, Riccardo Benaglia, Matteo Boschini … Simone CalderaraPattern Recognition Letters · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · Sapienza University of Rome
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  3. 2021
    Generalising via Meta-Examples for Continual Learning in the WildAlessia Bertugli, Stefano Vincenzi, Simone Calderara, Andrea PasseriniSpringer LNCS · University of Trento · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  4. 2022
    Class-Incremental Continual Learning Into the eXtended DER-VerseMatteo Boschini, Lorenzo Bonicelli, Pietro Buzzega … Simone CalderaraTPAMI · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  5. 2022
    Effects of Auxiliary Knowledge on Continual LearningGiovanni Bellitto, Matteo Pennisi, Simone Palazzo … Simone CalderaraICPR · University of Catania · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  6. 2022
    Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Concept Bottleneck ModelsEmanuele Marconato, Gianpaolo Bontempo, Stefano Teso … Andrea PasseriniSpringer LNCS · University of Pisa · University of Trento · +1
  7. 2021
    A TinyML Platform for On-Device Continual Learning With Quantized Latent ReplaysLeonardo Ravaglia, Manuele Rusci, Davide Nadalini … Luca BeniniIEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits… · University of Bologna · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · +1
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  8. 2021
    Continual semi-supervised learning through contrastive interpolation consistencyMatteo Boschini, Pietro Buzzega, Lorenzo Bonicelli … Simone CalderaraPattern Recognition Letters · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  9. 2021
    Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual LearningVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Cossu … Davide MaltoniCVPR · University of Pisa · University of Bologna · +12
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  10. 2020
    Rethinking Experience Replay: a Bag of Tricks for Continual LearningPietro Buzzega, Matteo Boschini, Angelo Porrello, Simone CalderaraICPR · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  11. 2020
    Memory-Latency-Accuracy Trade-Offs for Continual Learning on a RISC-V Extreme-Edge NodeLeonardo Ravaglia, Manuele Rusci, Alessandro Capotondi … Luca BeniniIEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems · University of Bologna · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia · +1
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  12. 2020
    Few-Shot Unsupervised Continual Learning through Meta-ExamplesAlessia Bertugli, Stefano Vincenzi, Simone Calderara, Andrea PasseriniarXiv · University of Trento · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  13. 2020
    Conditional Channel Gated Networks for Task-Aware Continual LearningDavide Abati, Jakub M. Tomczak, Tijmen Blankevoort … Babak Ehteshami BejnordiCVPR · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  14. 2020
    Dark Experience for General Continual Learning: a Strong, Simple BaselinePietro Buzzega, Matteo Boschini, Angelo Porrello … Simone CalderaraNeurIPS · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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  15. 2019
    Lifelong Learning in Sensor-Based Human Activity RecognitionJuan Ye, Simon Dobson, Franco ZambonelliIEEE Pervasive Computing · University of St Andrews · University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
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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