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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. 2024
    ReVLA: Reverting Visual Domain Limitation of Robotic Foundation ModelsSombit Dey, Jan-Nico Zaech, Nikolay Nikolov … Danda Pani PaudelICRA · Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
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  2. 2024
    OLiVia-Nav: An Online Lifelong Vision Language Approach for Mobile Robot Social NavigationSiddarth Narasimhan, Aaron Hao Tan, Daniel Choï, Goldie NejatICRA · University of Toronto
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  3. 2024
    M2Distill: Multi-Modal Distillation for Lifelong Imitation LearningKaushik Roy, Akila Dissanayakc, Brendan Tidd, Pcyman MoghadamICRA · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Data61
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  4. 2024
    CLIMB: Language-Guided Continual Learning for Task Planning with Iterative Model BuildingWalker Byrnes, Miroslav Bogdanović, Avi Balakirsky … Animesh GargICRA · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Toronto · +2
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  5. 2024
    VLM-Vac: Enhancing Smart Vacuums Through VLM Knowledge Distillation and Language-Guided Experience ReplayReihaneh Mirjalili, Michael Krawez, Florian Walter, Wolfram BurgardICRA · University of Technology Nuremberg
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  6. 2025
    Duolingo: Dynamics Utilization for Online Translation of ActionsKarthikeya Vemuri, Alan H.B. Wu, Arnav Thareja … Abhishek GuptaICRA · University of Washington · Universidad del Noreste
  7. 2023
    LOTUS: Continual Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation Through Unsupervised Skill DiscoveryWeikang Wan, Yifeng Zhu, Rutav Shah, Yuke ZhuICRA · The University of Texas at Austin
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  9. 2023
    Lifelong Robot Learning with Human Assisted Language PlannersMeenal Parakh, Alisha Fong, Anthony Simeonov … Pulkit AgrawalICRA
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  10. 2023
    Distribution-Aware Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Semantic SegmentationJiayi Ni, Senqiao Yang, Ran Xu … Shanghang ZhangICRA · King University · Peking University · +2
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  11. 2024
    Interactive Continual Learning Architecture for Long-Term Personalization of Home Service RobotsAli Ayub, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin DautenhahnICRA · University of Waterloo
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  12. 2023
    Incremental Learning of Full-Pose Via-Point Movement Primitives on Riemannian ManifoldsTilman Daab, Noémie Jaquier, Christian Dreher … Tamim AsfourICRA · Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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  13. 2024
    Adapting to the “Open World”: The Utility of Hybrid Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Symbolic PlanningPierrick Lorang, H. Horváth, Tobias Kietreiber … Matthias ScheutzICRA · Tufts University · TU Wien · +1
  14. 2024
    Experience Consistency Distillation Continual Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation TasksChao Zhao, Jie Xu, Ru Peng … Xuguang LanICRA · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  15. 2024
    Probabilistic Spiking Neural Network for Robotic Tactile Continual LearningSenlin Fang, Yiwen Liu, Chengliang Liu … Xinyu WuICRA · City University of Macau
  16. 2023
    VERSE: Virtual-Gradient Aware Streaming Lifelong Learning with Anytime InferenceSoumya Banerjee, Vinay Kumar Verma, Avideep Mukherjee … Piyush RaiICRA · Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · University of Bath
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  17. 2024
    Incremental 3D Reconstruction through a Hybrid Explicit-and-Implicit RepresentationFeifei Li, Panwen Hu, Qi Song, Rui HuangICRA · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  18. 2023
    Explain What You See: Open-Ended Segmentation and Recognition of Occluded 3D ObjectsHamed Ayoobi, H. Kasaei, Ming Cao … Bart VerheijICRA · University of Groningen · Imperial College London
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  19. 2023
    Online Visual SLAM Adaptation against Catastrophic Forgetting with Cycle-Consistent Contrastive LearningSangni Xu, Hao Xiong, Qiuxia Wu … Zhiyong WangICRA · The University of Sydney · South China University of Technology · +3
  20. 2023
    Streaming LifeLong Learning With Any-Time InferenceSoumya Banerjee, Vinay Kumar Verma, Vinay P. NamboodiriICRA · Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur · Duke University · +1
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  21. 2021
    Search-Based Task Planning with Learned Skill Effect Models for Lifelong Robotic ManipulationJacky Liang, Mohit Sharma, Alex LaGrassa … Oliver KroemerICRA · Carnegie Mellon University
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  22. 2021
    AirLoop: Lifelong Loop Closure DetectionDasong Gao, Chen Wang, Sebastian SchererICRA · Carnegie Mellon University
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  23. 2020
    Incremental Few-Shot Object Detection for RoboticsYiting Li, Haiyue Zhu, Sichao Tian … Tong Heng LeeICRA · National University of Singapore · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +2
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  24. 2022
    A Continuous Learning Approach for Probabilistic Human Motion PredictionJie Xu, Shihong Wang, Xingyu Chen … Nanning ZhengICRA · Xi'an Jiaotong University
  25. 2020
    Continual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with HypernetworksYizhou Huang, Kevin Xie, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Florian ShkurtiICRA · University of Toronto
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  26. 2021
    F-SIOL-310: A Robotic Dataset and Benchmark for Few-Shot Incremental Object LearningAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerICRA · Pennsylvania State University
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  27. 2021
    Toward Robust and Efficient Online Adaptation for Deep Stereo Depth EstimationMilo Knowles, Valentin Peretroukhin, W. Nicholas Greene, Nicholas RoyICRA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  28. 2019
    OpenLORIS-Object: A Robotic Vision Dataset and Benchmark for Lifelong Deep LearningQi She, Fan Feng, Xinyue Hao … Rosa H. M. ChanICRA · City University of Hong Kong · Tsinghua University · +4
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  29. 2018
    Memory Efficient Experience Replay for Streaming LearningTyler L. Hayes, Nathan D. Cahill, Christopher KananICRA · Rochester Institute of Technology
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  30. 2019
    Lifelong Learning for Heterogeneous Multi-Modal TasksHuaping Liu, Fuchun Sun, Bin FangICRA · Tsinghua University
  31. 2011
    Towards semi-supervised learning of semantic spatial conceptsJesús Martínez-Gómez, Barbara CaputoICRA · Idiap Research Institute
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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