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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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    Duolingo: Dynamics Utilization for Online Translation of ActionsKarthikeya Vemuri, Alan Wu, Arnav Thareja … Abhishek GuptaICRA
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  6. 2024
    CLIMB: Language-Guided Continual Learning for Task Planning with Iterative Model BuildingWalker Byrnes, Miroslav Bogdanovic, Avi Balakirsky … Animesh GargICRA
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    M2Distill: Multi-Modal Distillation for Lifelong Imitation LearningKaushik Roy, Akila Dissanayakc, Brendan Tidd, P. MoghadamICRA
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    ReVLA: Reverting Visual Domain Limitation of Robotic Foundation ModelsSombit Dey, Jan-Nico Zaech, Nikolay Nikolov … D. PaudelICRA
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  9. 2024
    VLM-Vac: Enhancing Smart Vacuums Through VLM Knowledge Distillation and Language-Guided Experience ReplayReihaneh Mirjalili, Michael Krawez, Florian Walter, Wolfram BurgardICRA
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    OLiVia-Nav: An Online Lifelong Vision Language Approach for Mobile Robot Social NavigationSiddarth Narasimhan, Aaron Hao Tan, Daniel Choi, G. NejatICRA
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    Probabilistic Spiking Neural Network for Robotic Tactile Continual LearningSenlin Fang, Yiwen Liu, Chengliang Liu … Xinyu WuICRA
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    OpenBot-Fleet: A System for Collective Learning with Real RobotsMatthias A. M¨uller, Samarth Brahmbhatt, A. Deka … V. KoltunICRA
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  18. 2023
    Incremental Learning of Full-Pose Via-Point Movement Primitives on Riemannian ManifoldsTilman Daab, Noémie Jaquier, Christian R. G. Dreher … Tamim AsfourICRA
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    Lifelong Robot Learning with Human Assisted Language PlannersMeenal Parakh, Alisha Fong, A. Simeonov … Pulkit AgrawalICRA
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    Distribution-Aware Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Semantic SegmentationJiayin Ni, Senqiao Yang, Jiaming Liu … Shanghang ZhangICRA
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    VPRTempo: A Fast Temporally Encoded Spiking Neural Network for Visual Place RecognitionAdam D. Hines, Peter G. Stratton, Michael Milford, Tobias FischerICRA
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    VERSE: Virtual-Gradient Aware Streaming Lifelong Learning with Anytime InferenceS. Banerjee, V. Verma, Avideep Mukherjee … Piyush RaiICRA
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    SHINE-Mapping: Large-Scale 3D Mapping Using Sparse Hierarchical Implicit Neural RepresentationsXingguang Zhong, Yue Pan, Jens Behley, Cyrill StachnissICRA · University of Bonn · University of Oxford · +1
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    Learning Tool Morphology for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks with Differentiable SimulationMengxi Li, Rika Antonova, Dorsa Sadigh, Jeannette BohgICRA · Stanford University
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    Test-time Domain Adaptation for Monocular Depth EstimationZhi Li, Shaoshuai Shi, B. Schiele, Dengxin DaiICRA
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    Streaming LifeLong Learning With Any-Time InferenceS. Banerjee, V. Verma, Vinay P. NamboodiriICRA
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    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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    AirLoop: Lifelong Loop Closure DetectionDasong Gao, Chen Wang, Sebastian SchererICRA · Carnegie Mellon University
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    Learning Spatiotemporal Occupancy Grid Maps for Lifelong Navigation in Dynamic ScenesHugues Thomas, Matthieu Gallet de Saint Aurin, Jian Zhang, Timothy D. BarfootICRA · University of Toronto
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    Incremental Few-Shot Object Detection for RoboticsYiting Li, Haiyue Zhu, Sichao Tian … Tong Heng LeeICRA · National University of Singapore · Agency for Science, Technology and Research · +2
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    Incremental Learning for Enhanced Personalization of Autocomplete TeleoperationMohammad Haj Hussein, Batool Ibrahim, Imad H. Elhajj, Daniel AsmarICRA · American University of Beirut
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    A Continuous Learning Approach for Probabilistic Human Motion PredictionJie Xu, Shihong Wang, Xingyu Chen … Nanning ZhengICRA · Xi'an Jiaotong University
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    Continual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with HypernetworksYizhou Huang, Kevin Xie, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Florian ShkurtiICRA · University of Toronto
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    F-SIOL-310: A Robotic Dataset and Benchmark for Few-Shot Incremental Object LearningAli Ayub, Alan R. WagnerICRA · Pennsylvania State University
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    Real-time Instance Detection with Fast Incremental LearningRichard Bormann, Xinjie Wang, Markus Völk … Jochen LindermayrICRA · Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation
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    Toward Robust and Efficient Online Adaptation for Deep Stereo Depth EstimationMilo Knowles, Valentin Peretroukhin, W. Nicholas Greene, Nicholas RoyICRA · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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    OpenLORIS-Object: A Robotic Vision Dataset and Benchmark for Lifelong Deep LearningQi She, Fan Feng, Xinyue Hao … Rosa H. M. ChanICRA · City University of Hong Kong · Tsinghua University · +4
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    Mini-Batched Online Incremental Learning Through Supervisory Teleoperation with Kinesthetic Coupling*Hiba Latifee, Affan Pervez, Jee-Hwan Ryu, Dongheui LeeICRA · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Technical University of Munich
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    Memory Efficient Experience Replay for Streaming LearningTyler L. Hayes, Nathan D. Cahill, Christopher KananICRA · Rochester Institute of Technology
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    Improving Grounded Natural Language Understanding through Human-Robot DialogJesse Thomason, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jivko Sinapov … Raymond J. MooneyICRA · University of Washington · The University of Texas at Austin · +1
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    A Framework for On-line Learning of Underwater Vehicles Dynamic ModelsBilal Wehbe, Marc Hildebrandt, Frank KirchnerICRA · University of Bremen · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
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    Lifelong Learning for Heterogeneous Multi-Modal TasksHuaping Liu, Fuchun Sun, Bin FangICRA · Tsinghua University
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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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