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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
    Efficient On-Device Intelligence: From Continual Adaptation to Generative AI on Edge DevicesYoung D. KwonAnnual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applic… · University of Cambridge · Samsung (United Kingdom)
  2. 2025
    Curriculum effects in multitask learning through the lens of contextual inference.Sabyasachi Shivkumar, Máté Lengyel, Daniel M. WolpertCurrent Opinion in Neurobiology · Allen Institute for Brain Science · Central European University · +1
  3. 2025
    Adaptive Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning via Latent Variable ModelsTameem AdelJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research · University of Cambridge
  4. 2024
    Similarity-Based Adaptation for Task-Aware and Task-Free Continual LearningTameem AdelJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research · National Physical Laboratory · University of Cambridge
  5. 2023
    Kaizen: Practical self-supervised continual learning with continual fine-tuningChi Ian Tang, Lorena Qendro, Dimitris Spathis … Akhil MathurWACV · University of Cambridge · Nokia (United Kingdom)
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  6. 2023
    First Session Adaptation: A Strong Replay-Free Baseline for Class-Incremental LearningAristeidis Panos, Yuriko Kobe, Daniel Olmeda Reino … Richard E. TurnerICCV · University of Cambridge · Toyota Motor Corporation (Switzerland)
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  7. 2022
    Federated Continual Learning for Socially Aware RoboticsLuke Guerdan, Hatice GüneşIEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interact… · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Cambridge
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  8. 2023
    The computational and neural bases of context-dependent learningJames B. Heald, Daniel M. Wolpert, Máté LengyelAnnual Review of Neuroscience · Columbia University · University of Cambridge
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  9. 2022
    Three types of incremental learningGido M. van de Ven, Tinne Tuytelaars, Andreas S. ToliasNature Machine Intelligence · Baylor College of Medicine · University of Cambridge · +2
  10. 2022
    Continual Learning for Affective Robotics: A Proof of Concept for WellbeingNikhil Churamani, Minja Axelsson, Atahan Çaldır, Hatice GüneşInternational Conference on Affective Computing and Intel… · University of Cambridge · Özyeğin University
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  11. 2021
    Domain-Incremental Continual Learning for Mitigating Bias in Facial Expression and Action Unit RecognitionNikhil Churamani, Özgür Kara, Hatice GüneşIEEE Transactions · University of Cambridge · Boğaziçi University
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  12. 2020
    Mind Your Manners! A Dataset and a Continual Learning Approach for Assessing Social Appropriateness of Robot ActionsJonas Tjomsland, Sinan Kalkan, Hatice GüneşFrontiers · University of Cambridge · Middle East Technical University
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  13. 2021
    Improving Scheduled Sampling with Elastic Weight Consolidation for Neural Machine TranslationMichalis Korakakis, Andreas VlachosEMNLP · University of Cambridge
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  14. 2020
    CVPR 2020 Continual Learning in Computer Vision Competition: Approaches, Results, Current Challenges and Future DirectionsVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Pau Rodríguez … Davide MaltoniArtificial Intelligence · University of Bologna · Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute · +7
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  15. 2021
    Provable Lifelong Learning of RepresentationsXinyuan Cao, Weiyang Liu, Santosh VempalaAISTATS · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Cambridge
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  16. 2021
    Exploring System Performance of Continual Learning for Mobile and Embedded Sensing ApplicationsYoung D. Kwon, Jagmohan Chauhan, Abhishek Kumar … Cecilia MascoloTyöväentutkimus Vuosikirja · University of Cambridge · University of Southampton
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  17. 2021
    Behavioral Experiments for Understanding Catastrophic ForgettingSamuel J. Bell, Neil D. LawrencearXiv · University of Cambridge
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  18. 2021
    FastICARL: Fast Incremental Classifier and Representation Learning with Efficient Budget Allocation in Audio Sensing ApplicationsYoung D. Kwon, Jagmohan Chauhan, Cecilia MascoloInterspeech · University of Cambridge · University of Southampton
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  19. 2021
    Towards Fair Affective Robotics: Continual Learning for Mitigating Bias in Facial Expression and Action Unit RecognitionÖzgür Kara, Nikhil Churamani, Hatice GüneşarXiv · Boğaziçi University · University of Cambridge
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  20. 2020
    InfoMax-GAN: Improved Adversarial Image Generation via Information Maximization and Contrastive LearningKwot Sin Lee, Ngoc-Trung Tran, Ngai‐Man CheungWACV · University of Cambridge · Snap (United States) · +1
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  21. 2021
    Elastic weight consolidation for better bias inoculationJames Thorne, Andreas VlachosEACL · University of Cambridge
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  22. 2020
    Generalized Variational Continual LearningNoel Loo, Siddharth Swaroop, Richard E. TurnerICLR · University of Cambridge
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  23. 2020
    CLIFER: Continual Learning with Imagination for Facial Expression RecognitionNikhil Churamani, Hatice GüneşIEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gestu… · University of Cambridge
  24. 2020
    Brain-inspired replay for continual learning with artificial neural networksGido M. van de Ven, Hava T. Siegelmann, Andreas S. ToliasNature Communications · Baylor College of Medicine · University of Cambridge · +3
  25. 2020
    Continual Learning for Affective Robotics: Why, What and How?Nikhil Churamani, Sinan Kalkan, Hatice GüneşIEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interact… · University of Cambridge · Middle East Technical University
  26. 2020
    Continual Learning for Affective ComputingNikhil ChuramaniarXiv · University of Cambridge
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  27. 2017
    Variational Continual LearningTurner, RE, Thang D. Bui, Yingzhen Li, Cuong, NguyenICLR · University of Cambridge
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  28. 2019
    Meta-Learning Improves Lifelong Relation ExtractionAbiola Obamuyide, Andreas VlachosWorkshop on Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP-2019) · University of Cambridge · PRG S&Tech (South Korea) · +1
  29. 2017
    Streaming Sparse Gaussian Process ApproximationsThang D. Bui, Cuong V. Nguyen, Richard E. TurnerNeurIPS · University of Cambridge
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  30. 2014
    Overcoming Catastrophic Interference in Connectionist Networks Using Gram-Schmidt OrthogonalizationVipin Srivastava, Suchitra Sampath, David ParkerPLOS · University of Hyderabad · University of Cambridge
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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