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Changing weight decay from 0.01 to 0 does not noticeably affect backdoor robustness to untargeted training.

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We find that changing weight decay from 0.01 to 0 has no noticeable effect on robustness.

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Factors that don't help much, 6; also SOAP optimizer did not replicate its earlier robustness gain except via reduced capability degradation.

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