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New FOGO optimizer tackles AI model forgetting

Researchers have introduced FOGO, a novel optimizer designed to combat forgetting during AI model training. FOGO addresses both short-term forgetting at each training step and long-term forgetting common in continual learning by detecting and resolving gradient interference. The optimizer uses spectral orthogonalization and a compact codebook memory to preserve past update directions, demonstrating improved convergence and knowledge retention across various tasks, including fine-tuning LLaVA-7B and pretraining GPT-2, outperforming existing optimizers like Adam and Muon. AI

IMPACT FOGO's ability to reduce forgetting could lead to more efficient and effective AI model training, particularly in continual learning scenarios.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new optimization algorithm for AI models.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Toan Nguyen, Yang Liu, Trung Le, Celso de Melo, Flora D. Salim ·

    FOGO: Forgetting-aware Orthogonalization Optimizer

    arXiv:2606.10406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We argue that forgetting is not confined to continual learning but is a general optimization phenomenon: during standard training, dominant mini-batch gradients suppress rare but useful update directions, causing short-term forget…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    FOGO: Forgetting-aware Orthogonalization Optimizer

    We argue that forgetting is not confined to continual learning but is a general optimization phenomenon: during standard training, dominant mini-batch gradients suppress rare but useful update directions, causing short-term forgetting at every step. When such knowledge is never r…