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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
    Lifelong Morphology Learning for Deformable Embodied AgentsYinsong Wang, Jing Zhao, Yubo Yang … Huaping LiuIROS · North China Electric Power University · Shanghai Institute of Technology · +2
  2. 2025
    Personalized Re-identification through Unsupervised Continual Learning and Parallel TrainingFederico Rollo, Andrea Zunino, Arash Ajoudani, Navvab KashiriIROS · IT+Robotics (Italy) · Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (Canada) · +1
  3. 2025
    Vision-Language Navigation with Continual Learning for Unseen EnvironmentsZhiyuan Li, Yanfeng Lu, Di Shang … Hong QiaoIROS · Institute of Automation
  4. 2024
    Continual Domain RandomizationJosip Josifovski, Sayantan Auddy, Mohammadhossein Malmir … Nicolás Navarro-GuerreroIROS · Technical University of Munich · Universität Innsbruck · +1
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  5. 2024
    Continual Learning for Autonomous Robots: A Prototype-based ApproachElvin Hajizada, Balachandran Swaminathan, Yulia SandamirskayaIROS · Intel (Germany) · Pennsylvania State University · +1
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  6. 2024
    A Framework for Neurosymbolic Goal-Conditioned Continual Learning in Open World EnvironmentsPierrick Lorang, Shivam Goel, Yash Shukla … Matthias ScheutzIROS · Tufts University · AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
  7. 2023
    GVCCI: Lifelong Learning of Visual Grounding for Language-Guided Robotic ManipulationJunghyun Kim, Gi-Cheon Kang, Jaein Kim … Byoung‐Tak ZhangIROS · Seoul National University
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  8. 2023
    Online Continual Learning for Robust Indoor Object RecognitionUmberto Michieli, Mete ÖzayIROS · Samsung (United Kingdom)
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  9. 2023
    I3DOD: Towards Incremental 3D Object Detection via PromptingWenqi Liang, Gan Sun, Chenxi Liu … Kangru WangIROS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +3
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  10. 2022
    InCloud: Incremental Learning for Point Cloud Place RecognitionJoshua Knights, Peyman Moghadam, Milad Ramezani … Clinton FookesIROS · Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation · Queensland University of Technology · +2
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  11. 2022
    Class-Incremental Gesture Recognition Learning with Out-of-Distribution DetectionMingxue Li, Yang Cong, Yuyang Liu, Gan SunIROS · Shenyang Institute of Automation · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +2
  12. 2022
    HRI Framework for Continual Learning in Face RecognitionGiulia Belgiovine, Jonas Gonzlez-Billandon, Alessandra Sciutti … Francesco ReaIROS · Italian Institute of Technology
  13. 2022
    RECALL: Rehearsal-free Continual Learning for Object ClassificationMarkus Knauer, Maximilian Denninger, Rudolph TriebelIROS · Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR) · Technical University of Munich
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  14. 2022
    Fast Hierarchical Learning for Few-Shot Object DetectionYihang She, Goutam Bhat, Martin Danelljan, Fisher YuIROS · ETH Zurich
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  15. 2021
    Behavior Self-Organization Supports Task Inference for Continual Robot LearningMuhammad Burhan Hafez, Stefan WermterIROS · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  16. 2020
    Latent Replay for Real-Time Continual LearningLorenzo Pellegrini, Gabriele Graffieti, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Davide MaltoniIROS · University of Bologna
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  17. 2018
    An Ensemble with Shared Representations Based on Convolutional Networks for Continually Learning Facial ExpressionsHenrique Siqueira, Pablo Barros, Sven Magg, Stefan WermterIROS · Universität Hamburg · Hamburg University of Technology
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  18. 2018
    Accelerating Learning in Constructive Predictive Frameworks with the Successor RepresentationCraig Sherstan, Marlos C. Machado, Patrick M. PilarskiIROS · University of Alberta
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  19. 2018
    Incremental Learning-Based Adaptive Object Recognition for Mobile RobotsMehmet Özgür Türkoglu, Frank B. ter Haar, Nanda van der StapIROS · University of Twente
  20. 1994
    A lifelong learning perspective for mobile robot controlSebastian ThrunIROS · University of Bonn
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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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