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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
    Learning to Hear Hesitation: Continual Learning for Disfluency-Aware ASRHenri-Leon Kordt, Theresa Pekarek Rosin, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan WermterarXiv
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  2. 2026
    MoDiCoL: A Modular Diagnostic Continual Learning Dataset for Robust Speech RecognitionTheresa Pekarek Rosin, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan WermterarXiv · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  3. 2023
    A Parameter-free Adaptive Resonance Theory-based Topological Clustering Algorithm Capable of Continual LearningNaoki Masuyama, Takanori Takebayashi, Yusuke Nojima … Stefan WermterNeural Computing and Applications · Osaka Prefecture University · University of Malaya · +2
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  4. 2024
    An Energy Sampling Replay-Based Continual Learning FrameworkZhang Xing-zhong, Joon Huang Chuah, Chu Kiong Loo, Stefan WermterSpringer LNCS · University of Malaya · Southern University College · +1
  5. 2023
    Read Between the Layers: Leveraging Intra-Layer Representations for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning with Pre-Trained ModelsKyra Ahrens, Hans Hergen Lehmann, Jae Hee Lee, Stefan WermterTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  6. 2023
    Continual Robot Learning Using Self-Supervised Task InferenceMuhammad Burhan Hafez, Stefan WermterIEEE TCDS · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  7. 2023
    Map-based experience replay: a memory-efficient solution to catastrophic forgetting in reinforcement learningMuhammad Burhan Hafez, Tilman Immisch, Tom Weber, Stefan WermterFrontiers · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  8. 2023
    Explainable Lifelong Stream Learning Based on "Glocal" Pairwise FusionChu Kiong Loo, Wei Shiung Liew, Stefan WermterarXiv
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  9. 2023
    Emphasizing Unseen Words: New Vocabulary Acquisition for End-to-End Speech RecognitionLeyuan Qu, Cornelius Weber, Stefan WermterNeural Networks · Universität Hamburg · Zhejiang Lab · +2
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  10. 2023
    Replay to Remember: Continual Layer-Specific Fine-tuning for German Speech RecognitionTheresa Pekarek Rosin, Stefan WermterSpringer LNCS · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  11. 2023
    Visually Grounded Continual Language Learning with Selective SpecializationKyra Ahrens, Lennart Bengtson, Jae Yeol Lee, Stefan WermterEMNLP · Universität Hamburg
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  12. 2022
    Self-organized Learning from Synthetic and Real-World Data for a Humanoid Exercise RobotNicolas Duczek, Matthias Kerzel, Philipp Allgeuer, Stefan WermterFrontiers · Universität Hamburg
  13. 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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  14. 2021
    Learning Then, Learning Now, and Every Second in Between: Lifelong Learning With a Simulated Humanoid RobotAleksej Logacjov, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan WermterFrontiers · Universität Hamburg
  15. 2021
    Continual Learning from Synthetic Data for a Humanoid Exercise RobotNicolas Duczek, Matthias Kerzel, Stefan WermterarXiv
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  16. 2021
    DRILL: Dynamic Representations for Imbalanced Lifelong LearningKyra Ahrens, Fares Abawi, Stefan WermterSpringer LNCS · Universität Hamburg
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  17. 2021
    Lifelong Learning from Event-based DataVadym Gryshchuk, Cornelius Weber, Chu Kiong Loo, Stefan WermterESANN 2021 proceedings · Universität Hamburg · University of Malaya
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  18. 2019
    Effect of Pruning on Catastrophic Forgetting in Growing Dual Memory NetworksWei Shiung Liew, Chu Kiong Loo, Vadym Gryshchuk … Stefan WermterIJCNN · University of Malaya · Universität Hamburg
  19. 2018
    On the role of neurogenesis in overcoming catastrophic forgettingGerman I. Parisi, Xu Ji, Stefan WermterarXiv
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  20. 2018
    An Ensemble with Shared Representations Based on Convolutional Networks for Continually Learning Facial ExpressionsHenrique Siqueira, Pablo Barros, Sven Magg, Stefan WermterIROS · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  21. 2019
    Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks: A ReviewG. I. Parisi, Ronald Kemker, Jose L. Part … Stefan WermterNeural Networks
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  22. 2017
    Lifelong learning of human actions with deep neural network self-organizationGerman I. Parisi, Jun Tani, Cornelius Weber, Stefan WermterNeural Networks · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology · +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. By default it shows the papers we have a reason to trust: published at a venue like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR or TPAMI, or written by someone who has published there, or cited a few hundred times. The rest are one click away under “All papers”. 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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