On consequences of finetuning on data with highly discriminative features

30 Oct 2023  ·  Wojciech Masarczyk, Tomasz Trzciński, Mateusz Ostaszewski ·

In the era of transfer learning, training neural networks from scratch is becoming obsolete. Transfer learning leverages prior knowledge for new tasks, conserving computational resources. While its advantages are well-documented, we uncover a notable drawback: networks tend to prioritize basic data patterns, forsaking valuable pre-learned features. We term this behavior "feature erosion" and analyze its impact on network performance and internal representations.

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