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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
    A theory of initialisation’s impact on specialisationDevon Jarvis, Sebastian Lee, Clémentine Carla Juliette Dominé … Stefano Sarao MannelliICLR
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  2. 2024
    Optimal protocols for continual learning via statistical physics and control theoryFrancesco Mori, Stefano Sarao Mannelli, Francesca MignaccoICLR
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  3. 2021
    An analytical theory of curriculum learning in teacher–student networksLuca Saglietti, Stefano Sarao Mannelli, Andrew SaxeJournal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · Bocconi University · Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit · +1
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  4. 2022
    Maslow's Hammer for Catastrophic Forgetting: Node Re-Use vs Node ActivationSebastian Lee, Stefano Sarao Mannelli, Claudia Clopath … Andrew SaxearXiv
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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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