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Hattie Zhou: Lottery Tickets and Algorithmic Reasoning in LLMs

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Retraining the Later Layers to Improve Transfer Learning Performance?

You mentioned that they were able to improve transfer learning performance by periodically reinitializing their final layer during fine tuning. Can you tell me a little bit about if that kind of got you thinking about any questions and sort of that representation learning perspective on this as well? Yeah, so we also have some similar experiments in the paper that doesn't apply to transfer learning, but does reset the later layers of the network. And I think one of the questions there is, you know, what is causing the improvement after retraining? Is it that you now have a better later layer? Or is it the case that the features that are in the earlier layers are being kind of amplified because they're never

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