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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. 2026PDF ↗
  2. 2024
    Distributed Continual LearningLong Bao Le, Marcel Hussing, Eric EatonarXiv
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  3. 2024
    A collective AI via lifelong learning and sharing at the edgeAndrea Soltoggio, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Vladimir Braverman … Soheil KolouriNature Machine Intelligence · Loughborough University · Rice University · +21
  4. 2023
    IBCL: Zero-shot Model Generation under Stability-Plasticity Trade-offsPengyuan Lu, Michele Caprio, Eric Eaton, Inseop LeearXiv
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  5. 2023
    A Domain-Agnostic Approach for Characterization of Lifelong Learning SystemsMegan M. Baker, Alexander New, Mario Aguilar-Simon … Gautam K. VallabhaNeural Networks · Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory · Teledyne Technologies (United States) · +13
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  6. 2023
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  8. 2022
    Lifelong Inverse Reinforcement LearningJorge A. Mendez, Shashank Shivkumar, Eric EatonNeurIPS · University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia University
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  10. 2021
    Towards a theory of out-of-distribution learningJayanta Dey, Ali Geisa, Ronak Mehta … Joshua T. VogelsteinarXiv
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  11. 2020
    Lifelong Learning of Compositional StructuresJorge A. Mendez, Eric EatonICLR · California University of Pennsylvania · University of Pennsylvania
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  12. 2020
    Lifelong Policy Gradient Learning of Factored Policies for Faster Training Without ForgettingJorge A. Mendez, Boyu Wang, Eric EatonNeurIPS · California University of Pennsylvania · University of Pennsylvania · +1
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  13. 2017
    Using Task Descriptions in Lifelong Machine Learning for Improved Performance and Zero-Shot TransferMohammad Rostami, David Isele, Eric EatonJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research · California University of Pennsylvania
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  14. 2020
    A General Framework for Continual Learning of Compositional StructuresJorge Armando Mendez Mendez, Eric EatonPreprint
  15. 2019
    Learning Shared Knowledge for Deep Lifelong Learning using Deconvolutional NetworksSeungwon Lee, James Stokes, Eric EatonIJCAI · University of Pennsylvania · Flatiron Health (United States) · +1
  16. 2019
  17. 2017
    Multi-Agent Distributed Lifelong Learning for Collective Knowledge AcquisitionMohammad Rostami, Soheil Kolouri, Kyungnam Kim, Eric EatonAdaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems · University of Pennsylvania · HRL Laboratories (United States)
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  18. 2018
    Modeling Consecutive Task Learning with Task Graph AgendasDavid Isele, Eric Eaton, Mark Roberts, David W. AhaAdaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems · University of Pennsylvania · United States Naval Research Laboratory
  19. 2018
    Lifelong Learning Networks: Beyond Single Agent Lifelong LearningMohammad Rostami, Eric EatonAAAI · California University of Pennsylvania
  20. 2015
    Safe Policy Search for Lifelong Reinforcement Learning with Sublinear RegretHaitham Bou Ammar, Rasul Tutunov, Eric EatonICML · University of Pennsylvania
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  21. 2013
    Active Task Selection for Lifelong Machine LearningPaul Ruvolo, Eric EatonAAAI · Bryn Mawr College
  22. 2013
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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