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The foundational work on continual learning, 1988 to 2026: methods, theory, benchmarks, surveys, and the neuroscience of memory. Updated weekly; some carry our notes.

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  1. 2026
    Deep Continual Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Dagstuhl Seminar 25432)Christopher Kanan, Martin Mundt, Tinne Tuytelaars … Timm Felix HessDagstuhl reports · University of Rochester · University of Bremen · +2
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  2. 2023
    Continual Learning with Pretrained Backbones by Tuning in the Input SpaceSimone Marullo, Matteo Tiezzi, Marco Gori … Tinne TuytelaarsIJCNN · University of Siena · University of Florence · +1
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  3. 2022
    Three types of incremental learningGido M. van de Ven, Tinne Tuytelaars, Andreas S. ToliasNature Machine Intelligence · Baylor College of Medicine · University of Cambridge · +2
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  5. 2021
    Rehearsal revealed: The limits and merits of revisiting samples in continual learningEli Verwimp, Matthias De Lange, Tinne TuytelaarsICCV · KU Leuven
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  6. 2021
    Avalanche: an End-to-End Library for Continual LearningVincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Andrea Cossu … Davide MaltoniCVPR · University of Pisa · University of Bologna · +12
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  7. 2021
    Ternary Feature Masks: zero-forgetting for task-incremental learningMarc Masana, Tinne Tuytelaars, Joost van de WeijerCVPR · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · Barcelona Supercomputing Center · +2
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  8. 2020
    Unsupervised Model Personalization While Preserving Privacy and Scalability: An Open ProblemMatthias De Lange, Xu Jia, Sarah Parisot … Tinne TuytelaarsCVPR · KU Leuven · Huawei Technologies (Sweden)
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  9. 2020
    More Classifiers, Less Forgetting: A Generic Multi-classifier Paradigm for Incremental LearningYu Liu, Sarah Parisot, Greg Slabaugh … Tinne TuytelaarsECCV · KU Leuven · Huawei Technologies (China) · +1
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  10. 2020
    On the Exploration of Incremental Learning for Fine-grained Image RetrievalWei Chen, Yu Liu, Weiping Wang … Michael S. LewBMVC · Leiden University · KU Leuven · +1
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  11. 2019
    Online Continual Learning with Maximally Interfered RetrievalRahaf Aljundi, Lucas Caccia, Eugene Belilovsky … Tinne TuytelaarsarXiv · McGill University · Université de Montréal · +1
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  12. 2019
    Task-Free Continual LearningRahaf Aljundi, Klaas Kelchtermans, Tinne TuytelaarsCVPR · KU Leuven
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  13. 2018
    Memory Aware Synapses: Learning what (not) to forgetRahaf Aljundi, Francesca Babiloni, Mohamed Elhoseiny … Tinne TuytelaarsECCV · IMEC · KU Leuven · +2
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  14. 2017
    Encoder Based Lifelong LearningAmal Rannen, Rahaf Aljundi, Matthew B. Blaschko, Tinne TuytelaarsICCV · IMEC · KU Leuven
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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 lists only 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. Preprints that later get accepted, and authors who later publish at those venues, are picked up by the weekly run. 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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