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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
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Life of Research Continual learning is scored against two reference points: naive sequential training below and joint training on all the data above. The usual reading is that the distance between them is made of forgetting and lost…