Laws of Learning Dynamics and the Core of Learners
Abstract
We formulate the fundamental laws governing learning dynamics, namely the conservation law and the decrease of total entropy. Within this framework, we introduce an entropy-based lifelong ensemble learning method. We evaluate its effectiveness by constructing an immunization mechanism to defend against transfer-based adversarial attacks on the CIFAR-10 dataset. Compared with a naive ensemble formed by simply averaging models specialized on clean and adversarial samples, the resulting logifold achieves higher accuracy in most test cases, with particularly large gains under strong perturbations.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 4 February 2026
- Document type
- Preprint