Normative Loss Landscape Navigation: A Trajectory-Based Approach to Mitigating Forgetting in Incremental Learning
Continual learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting when trained sequentially on non-stationary data distributions. Previously, this has been addressed through weight regularization. While preconditioning gradients offer a promising alternative to mitigate forgetting, current approaches are myopic. Conversely, standard regularization methods apply rigid, scalar Euclidean penalties that entirely ignore the underlying Riemannian geometry of the parameter space. To overcome this gap, we propose TMLN (Trajectory-Modulatory Landscape Navigation), a normative navigation policy that formalizes continual learning as an optimal control problem over a curved loss landscape. TMLN utilizes ...
| Authors | Isabelle Aguilar, Zayn Andre Zainal, Luis Fernando Herbozo Contreras et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 28 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 September 2026 |
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