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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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  1. 2026
  2. 2026
  3. 2025
  4. 2024
    An interactive AI-driven platform for fish age readingArjay Cayetano, Christoph Stransky, Andreas Birk, Thomas BreyPLOS
  5. 2022
    Expanding continual few-shot learning benchmarks to include recognition of specific instancesGideon Kowadlo, Abdelrahman Ahmed, Amir Mayan, David RawlinsonPLOS
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  6. 2024
  7. 2023
  8. 2023
    Hierarchical growth in neural networks structure: Organizing inputs by Order of Hierarchical ComplexitySofia Leite, B. Mota, António Ramos Silva … Pedro Pereira RodriguesPLOS
  9. 2022
    Modelling continual learning in humans with Hebbian context gating and exponentially decaying task signalsTimo Flesch, Dávid Nagy, Andrew Saxe, Christopher SummerfieldPLOS · University of Oxford · HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics · +5
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  10. 2021
    The geometry of representational drift in natural and artificial neural networksKyle Aitken, Marina Garrett, Shawn R. Olsen, Ştefan MihalaşPLOS · Allen Institute
  11. 2022
    Sleep prevents catastrophic forgetting in spiking neural networks by forming a joint synaptic weight representationRyan Golden, Jean Erik Delanois, Pavel Šanda, Maxim BazhenovPLOS · University of California San Diego · Czech Academy of Sciences · +1
  12. 2020
    On stability and associative recall of memories in attractor neural networksSuchitra Sampath, Vipin SrivastavaPLOS · University of Hyderabad
  13. 2019
    Streaming chunk incremental learning for class-wise data stream classification with fast learning speed and low structural complexityPrem Junsawang, Suphakant Phimoltares, Chidchanok LursinsapPLOS · Chulalongkorn University
  14. 2017
  15. 2015
    A Cognitive Neural Architecture Able to Learn and Communicate through Natural LanguageBruno Golosio, Angelo Cangelosi, Olesya Gamotina, Giovanni Luca MasalaPLOS · University of Sassari · University of Plymouth
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  16. 2015
  17. 2015
    A Fast Incremental Gaussian Mixture ModelRafael Pinto, Paulo Martins EngelPLOS · Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
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  18. 2015
    Neural Modularity Helps Organisms Evolve to Learn New Skills without Forgetting Old SkillsKai Olav Ellefsen, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, Jeff ClunePLOS · Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +3
  19. 2014
    Overcoming Catastrophic Interference in Connectionist Networks Using Gram-Schmidt OrthogonalizationVipin Srivastava, Suchitra Sampath, David ParkerPLOS · University of Hyderabad · University of Cambridge
  20. 2014
    Structural Synaptic Plasticity Has High Memory Capacity and Can Explain Graded Amnesia, Catastrophic Forgetting, and the Spacing EffectAndreas Knoblauch, Edgar Körner, Ursula Körner, Friedrich T. SommerPLOS · Honda (Germany) · Albstadt-Sigmaringen University · +2
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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