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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
    On the Design of Safe Continual RL Methods for Control of Nonlinear SystemsAustin Coursey, Marcos Quiñones-Grueiro, Gautam BiswasEuropean Control Conference (ECC) · Vanderbilt University · Integrated Software (United States)
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  2. 2024
    BrainWash: A Poisoning Attack to Forget in Continual LearningAli Abbasi, Parsa Nooralinejad, Hamed Pirsiavash, Soheil KolouriCVPR · Vanderbilt University · University of California, Davis
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  3. 2024
    A collective AI via lifelong learning and sharing at the edgeAndrea Soltoggio, Eseoghene Ben-Iwhiwhu, Vladimir Braverman … Soheil KolouriNature Machine Intelligence · Loughborough University · Rice University · +21
  4. 2023
    Is Multi-Task Learning an Upper Bound for Continual Learning?Zihao Wu, Huy Tran, Hamed Pirsiavash, Soheil KolouriICASSP · Vanderbilt University · University of California, Davis
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  5. 2023
    A Domain-Agnostic Approach for Characterization of Lifelong Learning SystemsMegan M. Baker, Alexander New, Mario Aguilar-Simon … Gautam K. VallabhaNeural Networks · Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory · Teledyne Technologies (United States) · +13
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  6. 2023
    Multi-Agent Lifelong Implicit Neural LearningSoheil Kolouri, Ali Abbasi, Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani … Hamed PirsiavashIEEE Signal Processing Letters · Vanderbilt University · University of California, Davis
  7. 2022
    Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machinesDhireesha Kudithipudi, Mario Aguilar-Simon, Jonathan Babb … Hava T. SiegelmannNature Machine Intelligence · The University of Texas at San Antonio · Intelligent Systems Research (United States) · +24
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  8. 2011
    A Cognitive Model for Generalization during Sequential LearningAshish Gupta, Lovekesh Vig, David C. NoelleJournal of Robotics · Vanderbilt University · Jawaharlal Nehru University · +1
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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