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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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  1. 2025
    MemOS: A Memory OS for AI SystemZhiyu Li, Shichao Song, Chenyang Xi … Feiyu XiongarXiv
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  2. 2021
    Incremental class learning using variational autoencoders with similarity learningJiahao Huo, Terence L. van ZylNeural Computing and Applications · University of Johannesburg
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  3. 2020
    Comparative Analysis of Catastrophic Forgetting in Metric LearningJiahao Huo, Terence L. van ZylInternational Conference on Soft Computing & Machine… · University of the Witwatersrand · University of Johannesburg
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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