Grow-Prune-Freeze Networks: Adaptive & Continual Learning Technique for Olfactory Navigation 文章

ArXiv CS.AI2026-05-26NEWSen作者: Kordel K. France, Ovidiu Daescu

摘要

arXiv:2605.25170v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training data for olfaction is scattered through disparate, non-standardized datasets that limit the ability to build representative world models. Olfactory navigation is a highly dynamic and non-stationary task that benefits from real-time continual learning. We introduce an adaptive framework called Grow-Prune-Freeze (GPF) networks that enable an agent to continually learn through growing, pruning, and freezing early layers of its policy in response to world complexity. Grounding GPFs in non-linear random matrix theory, we show that the work of Pennington & Worth (2017) can be extended from single hidden layers to n-layer continual-learning models, and that eigenvalue composition of network weights is preserved as successive layers are added.