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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. 2026
    Forgetting, plasticity, and co-observation: a third facet of continual learningTimm Hess, Abhishek Jha, Gido M. van de Ven, T. TuytelaarsarXiv
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  2. 2026
    Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision ModelsSergi Masip Cabeza, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen … T. TuytelaarsarXiv
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  4. 2026
    Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning AgentsVaggelis Dorovatas, M. Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov … Rahaf AljundiarXiv
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  5. 2026
    Putting a Face to Forgetting: Continual Learning meets Mechanistic InterpretabilitySergi Masip Cabeza, Gido M. van de Ven, Javier Ferrando, T. TuytelaarsarXiv
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  8. 2025
    Unsupervised Parameter Efficient Source-free Post-pretrainingAbhishek Jha, T. Tuytelaars, Yuki M. AsanoarXiv
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  9. 2025
    Continual Learning Should Move Beyond Incremental ClassificationRupert Mitchell, A. Alliegro, Raffaello Camoriano … Martin MundtarXiv
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  10. 2025
    Deep Continual Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Dagstuhl Seminar 25432)Christopher Kanan, Martin Mundt, T. Tuytelaars … Timm HessDagstuhl Reports
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  13. 2023
    Infinite dSprites for Disentangled Continual Learning: Separating Memory Edits from GeneralizationSebastian Dziadzio, cCaugatay Yildiz, Gido M. van de Ven … Matthias BethgeCoLLAs
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  14. 2023
    NeVRF: Neural Video-Based Radiance Fields for Long-Duration SequencesMinye Wu, T. TuytelaarsInternational Conference on 3D Vision
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  15. 2023
    Continual Learning of Diffusion Models with Generative DistillationSergi Masip Cabeza, Pau Rodríguez, T. Tuytelaars, Gido M. van de VenCoLLAs
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  16. 2023
    Continual Learning: Applications and the Road ForwardEli Verwimp, S. Ben-David, Matthias Bethge … Gido M. van de VenTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  18. 2023
    Continual Learning with Pretrained Backbones by Tuning in the Input SpaceSimone Marullo, Matteo Tiezzi, M. Gori … T. TuytelaarsIEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Network
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  19. 2023
    Prediction Error-based Classification for Class-Incremental LearningMichal Zajkac, T. Tuytelaars, Gido M. van de VenICLR
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  20. 2023
    Knowledge Accumulation in Continually Learned Representations and the Issue of Feature ForgettingTimm Hess, Eli Verwimp, Gido M. van de Ven, T. TuytelaarsTrans. Mach. Learn. Res.
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  21. 2023
    Deep Continual Learning (Dagstuhl Seminar 23122)T. Tuytelaars, Bing Liu, Vincenzo Lomonaco … Andrea CossuDagstuhl Reports
  22. 2021
    Reducing Representation Drift in Online Continual LearningLucas Caccia, Rahaf Aljundi, T. Tuytelaars … Eugene BelilovskyarXiv
  23. 2020
    Ternary Feature Masks: continual learning without any forgettingMarc Masana, T. Tuytelaars, Joost van de WeijerarXiv
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  24. 2021
    Continual learning: A comparative study on how to defy forgetting in classification tasksMatthias De Lange, Rahaf Aljundi, Marc Masana … T. TuytelaarsTPAMI
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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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