2 papers
cs.LG2025
How Weight Resampling and Optimizers Shape the Dynamics of Continual Learning and Forgetting in Neural Networks
Lapo Frati, Neil Traft, Jeff Clune +1
Recent work in continual learning has highlighted the beneficial effect of resampling weights in the last layer of a neural network (``zapping"). Although empirical results demonst…
cs.LG2024
Reset It and Forget It: Relearning Last-Layer Weights Improves Continual and Transfer Learning
Lapo Frati, Neil Traft, Jeff Clune +1
This work identifies a simple pre-training mechanism that leads to representations exhibiting better continual and transfer learning. This mechanism -- the repeated resetting of we…