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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. 2025
    Does Prior Data Matter? Exploring Joint Training in the Context of Few-Shot Class-Incremental LearningShiwon Kim, Dongjun Hwang, Sungwon Woo, Rita SinghICCV · Yonsei University · Sogang University · +1
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  2. 2025
    Playbook: Scalable Discrete Skill Discovery From Unstructured Datasets for Long-Horizon Decision-Making ProblemsMinjae Kang, Mineui Hong, Songhwai OhRA-L · Seoul National University · Carnegie Mellon University
  3. 2025
    FALCON: Fairness Learning via Contrastive Attention Approach to Continual Semantic Scene UnderstandingThanh-Dat Truong, Utsav Prabhu, Bhiksha Raj … Khoa LuuCVPR · Google (United States) · Carnegie Mellon University · +2
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  4. 2025
    Dynamic Expansion Diffusion Learning for Lifelong Generative ModellingFei Ye, Adrian G. Borş, Kun ZhangAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York · +1
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  5. 2025
    Continual Unsupervised Generative Modelling via Online Optimal TransportFei Ye, Adrian G. Borş, Kun ZhangAAAI · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · University of York · +2
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  6. 2024
    Improving Continual Learning of Acoustic Scene Classification via Mutual Information OptimizationMuqiao Yang, Umberto Cappellazzo, Xiang Li, Bhiksha RajICASSP · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Trento
  7. 2024
    Gradient Localization Improves Lifelong Pretraining of Language ModelsJared Fernandez, Yonatan Bisk, Emma StrubellEMNLP · Carnegie Mellon University
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  8. 2023
    Perpetual Humanoid Control for Real-time Simulated AvatarsZhengyi Luo, Jinkun Cao, Alexander Winkler … Weipeng XuICCV · META Health · Carnegie Mellon University
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  9. 2023
    Audio-Visual Class-Incremental LearningWeiguo Pian, Shentong Mo, Yunhui Guo, Yapeng TianICCV · The University of Texas at Dallas · Carnegie Mellon University
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  10. 2023
    Class-Incremental Grouping Network for Continual Audio-Visual LearningShentong Mo, Weiguo Pian, Yapeng TianICCV · Carnegie Mellon University
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  11. 2023
    BioSLAM: A Bioinspired Lifelong Memory System for General Place RecognitionPeng Yin, Abulikemu Abuduweili, Shiqi Zhao … Sebastian SchererIEEE Transactions · City University of Hong Kong · Carnegie Mellon University
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  12. 2023
    Federated Continual Learning for Socially Aware RoboticsLuke Guerdan, Hatice GüneşIEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interact… · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Cambridge
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  13. 2023
    Leveraging joint incremental learning objective with data ensemble for class incremental learningPratik Mazumder, Mohammed Asad Karim, Indu Joshi, Pravendra SinghNeural Networks · Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur · Carnegie Mellon University · +2
  14. 2022
    Updating Only Encoders Prevents Catastrophic Forgetting of End-to-End ASR ModelsYuki Takashima, Shota Horiguchi, Shinji Watanabe … Yohei KawaguchiInterspeech · Hitachi (Japan) · Johns Hopkins University · +1
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  15. 2022
    Rethinking Architecture Design for Tackling Data Heterogeneity in Federated LearningLiangqiong Qu, Yuyin Zhou, Paul Pu Liang … Daniel L. RubinCVPR · Stanford University · University of California, Santa Cruz · +2
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  16. 2022
    Lifelong Graph LearningChen Wang, Yuheng Qiu, Dasong Gao, Sebastian SchererCVPR · Carnegie Mellon University
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  17. 2022
    Search-Based Task Planning with Learned Skill Effect Models for Lifelong Robotic ManipulationJacky Liang, Mohit Sharma, Alex LaGrassa … Oliver KroemerICRA · Carnegie Mellon University
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  18. 2022
    AirLoop: Lifelong Loop Closure DetectionDasong Gao, Chen Wang, Sebastian SchererICRA · Carnegie Mellon University
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  19. 2022
    Avoiding Catastrophe: Active Dendrites Enable Multi-Task Learning in Dynamic EnvironmentsAbhiram Iyer, Karan Grewal, Akash Velu … Subutai AhmadFrontiers · Carnegie Mellon University · Stanford University · +1
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  20. 2021
    Wanderlust: Online Continual Object Detection in the Real WorldJianren Wang, Xin Wang, Yue Shang-Guan, Abhinav GuptaICCV · Carnegie Mellon University · Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) · +1
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  21. 2020
    La-MAML: Look-ahead Meta Learning for Continual LearningGunshi Gupta, Karmesh Yadav, Liam PaullNeurIPS · Carnegie Mellon University · Université de Montréal
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  22. 2020
    Task-Agnostic Online Reinforcement Learning with an Infinite Mixture of Gaussian ProcessesMengdi Xu, Wenhao Ding, Jiacheng Zhu … Ding ZhaoNeurIPS · Carnegie Mellon University · Tsinghua University · +1
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  23. 2020
    Efficient Meta Lifelong-Learning with Limited MemoryZirui Wang, Sanket Vaibhav Mehta, Barnabás Póczos, Jaime CarbonellEMNLP · Carnegie Mellon University
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  24. 2019
    Lifelong Learning in Costly Feature SpacesMaria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Vaishnavh NagarajanTheoretical Computer Science · Carnegie Mellon University · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
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  25. 2019
    Continual Unsupervised Representation LearningDushyant Rao, Francesco Visin, Andrei Rusu … Raia HadsellNeurIPS · Carnegie Mellon University · Google (United States) · +2
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  26. 2019
    Collaborative Learning Through Shared Collective Knowledge and Local ExpertiseJavad Mohammadi, Soheil KolouriIEEE 29th International Workshop on Machine Learning for… · Carnegie Mellon University · HRL Laboratories (United States)
  27. 2019
    An Empirical Study of Example Forgetting during Deep Neural Network LearningMariya Toneva, Alessandro Sordoni, Rémi Tachet des Combes … Geoffrey J. GordonICLR · Carnegie Mellon University · Microsoft (United States) · +1
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  28. 2017
    Generative and Discriminative Text Classification with Recurrent Neural NetworksDani Yogatama, Chris Dyer, Ling Wang, Phil BlunsomarXiv · Baidu (China) · Carnegie Mellon University · +1
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  29. 2013
    Sequential Transfer in Multi-armed Bandit with Finite Set of ModelsMohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Alessandro Lazaric, Emma BrunskillNeurIPS · Carnegie Mellon University · Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille
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  30. 2000
    TRANSFERRING LEARNED KNOWLEDGE IN A LIFELONG LEARNING MOBILE ROBOT AGENTJoseph A. O’SullivanWorld Scientific series in robotics and intelligent systems · Carnegie Mellon University
  31. 1998
    Learning to LearnSebastian Thrun, Lorien PrattSpringer · Australian National University · Carnegie Mellon University
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  32. 1996
    Explanation-based neural network learning a lifelong learning approachSebastian ThrunKluwer international series in engineering and computer s… · Carnegie Mellon University
  33. 1996
    LEARNING MORE FROM LESS DATA: EXPERIMENTS WITH LIFELONG ROBOT LEARNINGSebastian ThrunIEE Colloquium on Self Learning Robots · Carnegie Mellon University
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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