A review of discrete solutions of poisson, laplace, and wave equations

Sevgi, Levent (Dogus Author)One- and two-dimensional discrete solutions of Poisson, Laplace, and wave equations are given in this tutorial. The terms wave propagation and numerical propagation are discussed. Simple MATLAB scripts are also supplied.IEEE Antennas and Propagation Societ

On Quadratic Penalties in Elastic Weight Consolidation

Elastic weight consolidation (EWC, Kirkpatrick et al, 2017) is a novel algorithm designed to safeguard against catastrophic forgetting in neural networks. EWC can be seen as an approximation to Laplace propagation (Eskin et al, 2004), and this view is consistent with the motivation given by Kirkpatrick et al (2017). In this note, I present an extended derivation that covers the case when there are more than two tasks. I show that the quadratic penalties in EWC are inconsistent with this derivation and might lead to double-counting data from earlier tasks