A Residual Is Not a Third Factor: What the Gap Between a Perfect-Retention Ensemble and Joint Training Measures in Continual Learning, Why Chunk Size, Repetition and the Combiner Move It, and the Controls That Would Make Co-observation a Mechanism

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). A Residual Is Not a Third Factor: What the Gap Between a Perfect-Retention Ensemble and Joint Training Measures in Continual Learning, Why Chunk Size, Repetition and the Combiner Move It, and the Controls That Would Make Co-observation a Mechanism [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23933365

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@misc{lor1862026,
  title        = {A Residual Is Not a Third Factor: What the Gap Between a Perfect-Retention Ensemble and Joint Training Measures in Continual Learning, Why Chunk Size, Repetition and the Combiner Move It, and the Controls That Would Make Co-observation a Mechanism},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23933365},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/186},
  keywords     = {continual learning, catastrophic forgetting, loss of plasticity, joint training, experience replay, warm-starting, data-incremental learning, evaluation methodology},
  note         = {LOR-00186}
}

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