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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
    Hippocampal indexing alters the stability landscape of synaptic weight space allowing life-long learningOscar C. González, Ryan Golden, Erik Delanois … Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of Colorado Boulder · University of California San Diego · +3
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  2. 2025
    Interleaved Replay of Novel and Familiar Memory Traces During Slow-Wave Sleep Prevents Catastrophic ForgettingRyan Golden, Rajat Saxena, Oscar C. González … Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of California San Diego · University of California, Irvine · +2
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  3. 2025
    Clo-HDnn: A 4.66 TLOPS/W and 3.78 TOPS/W Continual On-Device Learning Accelerator with Energy-Efficient Hyperdimensional Computing via Progressive SearchChang Eun Song, Weihong Xu, Keming Fan … Mingu KangSymposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Technolog… · University of California San Diego · Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan)
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  4. 2025
    When to Learn and When to Stop: Quitting at the Optimal Time (Student Abstract)Diana Vins, Jean Erik Delanois, Maxim BazhenovAAAI · University of San Diego · University of California San Diego
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  5. 2024
    Unsupervised Replay Strategies for Continual Learning with Limited DataAnthony Bazhenov, Pahan Dewasurendra, Giri P. Krishnan, Jean Erik DelanoisIEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network · University of California San Diego
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  6. 2024
    Intelligence Beyond the Edge using Hyperdimensional ComputingXiaofan Yu, Anthony Thomas, Ivannia Gomez Moreno … Tajana RosingACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processi… · University of California San Diego · CETYS Universidad
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  7. 2024
    Evolve: Enhancing Unsupervised Continual Learning with Multiple ExpertsXiaofan Yu, Tajana Rosing, Yunhui GuoWACV · University of California San Diego
  8. 2022
    SCALE: Online Self-Supervised Lifelong Learning without Prior KnowledgeXiaofan Yu, Yunhui Guo, Sicun Gao, Tajana RosingCVPR · University of California San Diego
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  9. 2022
    Sleep-like unsupervised replay reduces catastrophic forgetting in artificial neural networksTimothy Tadros, Giri P. Krishnan, Ramyaa Ramyaa, Maxim BazhenovNature Communications · University of California San Diego · New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  10. 2022
    Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks by forming a joint synaptic weight representationRyan Golden, Jean Erik Delanois, Pavel Šanda, Maxim BazhenovPLOS · University of California San Diego · Czech Academy of Sciences · +1
  11. 2022
    On Generalizing Beyond Domains in Cross-Domain Continual LearningChristian Simon, Masoud Faraki, Yi–Hsuan Tsai … Manmohan ChandrakerCVPR · Australian National University · Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute · +5
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  12. 2022
    Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machinesDhireesha Kudithipudi, Mario Aguilar-Simon, Jonathan Babb … Hava T. SiegelmannNature Machine Intelligence · The University of Texas at San Antonio · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · +24
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  13. 2021
    Replay in Deep Learning: Current Approaches and Missing Biological ElementsTyler L. Hayes, Giri P. Krishnan, Maxim Bazhenov … Christopher KananNeural Computation · Rochester Institute of Technology · University of California San Diego · +5
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  14. 2021
    Bridge Networks: Relating Inputs through Vector-Symbolic ManipulationsWilkie Olin-Ammentorp, Maxim BazhenovInternational Conference on Neuromorphic Systems 2021 · University of California San Diego
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  15. 2020
    Can sleep protect memories from catastrophic forgetting?Oscar C González, Yury Sokolov, Giri P Krishnan … Maxim BazhenoveLife · University of California San Diego
  16. 2020
    Author response: Can sleep protect memories from catastrophic forgetting?Oscar C. González, Yury Sokolov, Giri P. Krishnan … Maxim BazhenovPreprint · University of California San Diego
  17. 2020
    Incremental Learning Algorithm For Sound Event DetectionEunjeong Stella Koh, Forough Saki, Yinyi Guo … Erik VisserIEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo · University of California San Diego · Qualcomm (United States)
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  18. 2020
    Biologically Inspired Sleep Algorithm for Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural NetworksTimothy Tadros, Giri P. Krishnan, Ramyaa Ramyaa, Maxim BazhenovAAAI · University of California San Diego · New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  19. 2020
    A modeling framework for adaptive lifelong learning with transfer and savings through gating in the prefrontal cortexBen Tsuda, Kay M. Tye, Hava T. Siegelmann, Terrence J. SejnowskiPNAS · Salk Institute for Biological Studies · University of California San Diego · +1
  20. 2019
    Learning with Long-term Remembering: Following the Lead of Mixed Stochastic GradientYunhui Guo, Mingrui Liu, Tianbao Yang, Tajana RosingarXiv · University of California San Diego · University of Iowa
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  21. 2019
    Visualizing the PHATE of Neural NetworksScott Gigante, Adam S. Charles, Smita Krishnaswamy, Gal MishneNeurIPS · Yale University · Princeton University · +1
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  22. 2019
    Interleaved training prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networksRyan Golden, Jean Erik Delanois, Pavel Šanda, Maxim BazhenovbioRxiv · University of California San Diego · Czech Academy of Sciences · +1
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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