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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. 2019
    Incremental Learning Using a Grow-and-Prune Paradigm With Efficient Neural NetworksXiaoliang Dai, Hongxu Yin, Niraj K. JhaIEEE Transactions · Princeton University
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  2. 2019
    Hierarchical Lifelong Learning by Sharing Representations and Integrating HypothesisTong Zhang, Guoxi Su, Chunmei Qing … Xiaofen XingIEEE Transactions · South China University of Technology
  3. 2019
    Guided Policy Search for Sequential Multitask LearningFangzhou Xiong, Biao Sun, Xu Yang … Zhiyong LiuIEEE Transactions · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Science and Technology Beijing · +4
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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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