This document discusses a technique called "rolling back" to pre-trained networks for improving person re-identification (ReID) in deep learning models. ReID aims to match images of the same person across non-overlapping camera views. The technique involves fine-tuning a pre-trained convolutional neural network on a ReID dataset, but periodically rolling back higher-level layers to their original pre-trained weights to allow lower-level layers to train more. This incremental rolling back approach leads to better generalization performance compared to standard fine-tuning, achieving state-of-the-art results on ReID benchmarks without using additional data or model structures.