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New L2 regularization method enhances continual learning for linear networks

Researchers have developed a new approach to continual learning in high-dimensional statistical settings, focusing on logistic regression with linear predictors. Their work extends existing theories on L2 regularization, which are typically limited to the kernel regime of neural networks. The study proposes a weighted L2 regularization variant designed to preserve beneficial sparsity bias in deeper models, which is often lost in standard continual learning setups. This new method demonstrates faster convergence for sparse teachers compared to conventional L1 or L2 regularization over moderate task horizons. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Gilad Karpel, Itay Evron, Ron Meir, Daniel Soudry ·

    Continual Classification Beyond the Kernel Regime: Harnessing the Sparsity Bias of L2 Regularization in Diagonal Linear Networks

    arXiv:2611.06759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study logistic regression for continual learning with linear predictors in a high-dimensional statistical setting. Existing theoretical work has largely focused on continual linear regression with variants of L2 regularization, m…