Second, pretraining with global, unfiltered data before fine-tuning on English content can improve cultural understanding without sacrificing performance on said popular benchmarks.
Layer normalization has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness at preventing plasticity loss in continual and reinforcement learning (RL), though the precise reasons for this effectiveness remain mysterious.
In image classification, it is common to utilize a pretrained model to extract meaningful features of the input images, and then to train a classifier on top of it to make predictions for any downstream task.