arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-07-16
Gate-Zero Growth: A Geometric Framework for Function-Preserving Continual Learning
We introduce \emph{gate-zero growth}, a function-preserving (FP) operator for continual learning that adds new residual blocks through a zero-initialised gate. Under a transversality condition, gate-zero growth induces \emph{rank separation} in the functional Jacobian: old direct…