Intrinsic-Extrinsic Coupling in Learning Dynamics
Researchers show replay can erase a classifier-head intervention's gains, formalizing intrinsic-extrinsic coupling in learning.
The paper formalizes intrinsic-extrinsic coupling, arguing that current observations do not fully determine a learner's response to further training. An executable classifier-head write preserves current logits while repairing specified historical margins. In a CLINC-derived class-incremental setting, replay changed that write's 32-update contribution from five correct predictions to zero. Nonzero interactions also appeared under output distillation, a RoBERTa backbone, and SGDW, where correct-count interactions were negative at 128 updates.