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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
    Fast and Slow Variational Continual LearningSubarnaduti Paul, Yohan Jung, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan … Martin MundtarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  3. 2025
    Deep Continual Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Dagstuhl Seminar 25432)Christopher Kanan, Martin Mundt, Tinne Tuytelaars … Timm Felix HessDagstuhl reports · University of Rochester · University of Bremen · +2
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  4. 2025
    Continual Learning Should Move Beyond Incremental ClassificationRupert Mitchell, Antonio Alliegro, Raffaello Camoriano … Martin MundtarXiv
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  5. 2024
    Where is the Truth? The Risk of Getting Confounded in a Continual WorldFlorian Peter Busch, Roshni Kamath, Rupert Mitchell … Martin MundtICML
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  6. 2023
    Continual Learning: Applications and the Road ForwardEli Verwimp, Rahaf Aljundi, Shai Ben-David … Gido M. van de VenTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  7. 2023
    Masked Autoencoders are Efficient Continual Federated LearnersSubarnaduti Paul, Lars-Joel Frey, Roshni Kamath … Martin MundtCoLLAs
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  8. 2020
    A Wholistic View of Continual Learning with Deep Neural Networks: Forgotten Lessons and the Bridge to Active and Open World LearningMartin Mundt, Yongwon Hong, Iuliia Pliushch, Visvanathan RameshNeural Networks · Goethe University Frankfurt · Technische Universität Darmstadt · +1
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  9. 2022
    Return of the normal distribution: Flexible deep continual learning with variational auto-encodersYongwon Hong, Martin Mundt, Sungho Park … Hyeran ByunNeural Networks · Yonsei University · Technische Universität Darmstadt · +1
  10. 2019
    Unified Probabilistic Deep Continual Learning through Generative Replay and Open Set RecognitionMartin Mundt, Iuliia Pliushch, Sagnik Majumder … Visvanathan RameshJournal of Imaging · Goethe University Frankfurt · The University of Texas at Austin · +1
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  11. 2021
    CLEVA-Compass: A Continual Learning EValuation Assessment Compass to Promote Research Transparency and ComparabilityMartin Mundt, Steven Lang, Quentin Delfosse, Kristian KerstingICLR · Technische Universität Darmstadt
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  12. 2021
    A Procedural World Generation Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Continual LearningTimm Hess, Martin Mundt, Iuliia Pliushch, Visvanathan RameshNeurIPS · Goethe University Frankfurt
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  13. 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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  14. 2021
    Neural Architecture Search of Deep Priors: Towards Continual Learning without Catastrophic InterferenceMartin Mundt, Iuliia Pliushch, Visvanathan RameshCVPR · Goethe University Frankfurt
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  15. 2021
    Designing deep neural networks for continual learning in an open worldMartin MundtGoethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
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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