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The foundational work on continual learning, 1959 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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    Lifelong Morphology Learning for Deformable Embodied AgentsYinsong Wang, Jing Zhao, Yubo Yang … Hua-Ping LiuIROS
  3. 2025
    Personalized Re-identification through Unsupervised Continual Learning and Parallel TrainingFederico Rollo, Andrea Zunino, Arash Ajoudani, Navvab KashiriIROS
  4. 2025
    Vision-Language Navigation with Continual Learning for Unseen EnvironmentsZhiyuan Li, Yanfeng Lu, Di Shang … Hong QiaoIROS
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  8. 2024
    A Framework for Neurosymbolic Goal-Conditioned Continual Learning in Open World EnvironmentsPierrick Lorang, Shivam Goel, Yash Shukla … Matthias ScheutzIROS
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    Continuous Rapid Learning by Human Imitation using Audio Prompts and One-Shot LearningJaime Duque-Domingo, M. García-Gómez, E. Zalama, J. Gómez-García-BermejoIROS
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    Incremental Learning for Robot Shared AutonomyYiran Tao, Guixiu Qiao, Dan Ding, Zackory EricksonIROS
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    From LLMs to Actions: Latent Codes as Bridges in Hierarchical Robot ControlYide Shentu, Philipp Wu, A. Rajeswaran, Pieter AbbeelIROS
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    Continual Learning for Autonomous Robots: A Prototype-based ApproachElvin Hajizada, Balachandran Swaminathan, Yulia SandamirskayaIROS
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    Continual Domain RandomizationJosip Josifovski, S. Auddy, M. Malmir … Nicolás Navarro-GuerreroIROS
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  17. 2023
    I3DOD: Towards Incremental 3D Object Detection via PromptingWen-Qi Liang, Gan Sun, Chenxi Liu … Kang-Ru WangIROS
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  20. 2023
    GVCCI: Lifelong Learning of Visual Grounding for Language-Guided Robotic ManipulationJunghyun Kim, Gi-Cheon Kang, Jaein Kim … Byoung-Tak ZhangIROS
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  23. 2022
    InCloud: Incremental Learning for Point Cloud Place RecognitionJoshua Knights, Peyman Moghadam, Milad Ramezani … Clinton FookesIROS · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Queensland University of Technology · +2
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    Towards Adaptive Continuous Control of Soft Robotic Manipulator using Reinforcement LearningYingqi Li, Xiaomei Wang, Ka‐Wai KwokIROS · Chinese University of Hong Kong · University of Hong Kong
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    RECALL: Rehearsal-free Continual Learning for Object ClassificationMarkus Knauer, Maximilian Denninger, Rudolph TriebelIROS · Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) · Technical University of Munich
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  26. 2022
    Fast Hierarchical Learning for Few-Shot Object DetectionYihang She, Goutam Bhat, Martin Danelljan, Fisher YuIROS · ETH Zurich
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  27. 2021
    Behavior Self-Organization Supports Task Inference for Continual Robot LearningMuhammad Burhan Hafez, Stefan WermterIROS · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  28. 2021
    Domain Curiosity: Learning Efficient Data Collection Strategies for Domain AdaptationKarol Arndt, Oliver Struckmeier, Ville KyrkiIROS · Aalto University
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  29. 2019
    Latent Replay for Real-Time Continual LearningLorenzo Pellegrini, Gabriele Graffieti, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Davide MaltoniIROS · University of Bologna
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  30. 2020
    Tell me what this is: Few-Shot Incremental Object Learning by a RobotAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerIROS · Pennsylvania State University
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  31. 2020
    Maximizing BCI Human Feedback using Active LearningZizhao Wang, Junyao Shi, Iretiayo Akinola, Peter AllenIROS · Columbia University
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  32. 2019
    Active Incremental Learning of a Contextual Skill ModelMurtaza Hazara, Xiaopu Li, Ville KyrkiIROS · Aalto University
  33. 2018
    Emotional Bodily Expressions for Culturally Competent Robots through Long Term Human-Robot InteractionNguyen Tan Viet Tuyen, Sungmoon Jeong, Nak Young ChongIROS · Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  34. 2018
    Accelerating Learning in Constructive Predictive Frameworks with the Successor RepresentationCraig Sherstan, Marlos C. Machado, Patrick M. PilarskiIROS · University of Alberta
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  35. 2018
    Incremental Learning-Based Adaptive Object Recognition for Mobile RobotsMehmet Özgür Türkoglu, Frank B. ter Haar, Nanda van der StapIROS · University of Twente
  36. 2017
    Incremental learning for robot perception through HRISepehr Valipour, Camilo Perez, Martin JägersandIROS
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    Semantic categorization of outdoor scenes with uncertainty estimates using multi-class gaussian process classificationRohan Paul, Rudolph Triebel, Daniela Rus, Paul NewmanIROS · Oxford Research Group · University of Oxford · +1
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    A lifelong learning perspective for mobile robot controlSebastian ThrunIROS · University of Bonn
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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