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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational7 October 2026

Large Pretraining Datasets Don't Guarantee Robustness after Fine-Tuning in Image Classification

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arXiv:2410.21582v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale pretrained models are widely leveraged as foundations for learning new specialized tasks via fine-tuning, with the goal of maintaining the general performance of the model while allowing it to gain new skills. A valuable goal for all such models is robustness: the ability to perform well on out-of-distribution (OOD) tasks. We assess whether fine-tuning preserves the overall robustness of the pretrained model in image classification, and observed that models pretrained on large datasets exhibited strong catastrophic forgettin
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