Catastrophic forgetfullness

[balachander1964]

Hi Spacy Team, does the current version of Spacy handle the Catastrophic Forgetfullness automatically, or should we merge the predictions with new annotations when training? Awaiting your reply, Thank you. Bala

[polm]

No, spaCy doesn't do anything about catastrophic forgetting automatically. There are some topics about it in the FAQ.

If you need to retrain a model, you should have annotations for all the entity types. However we recommend training a component from scratch in most situations instead.