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Sakana AI Researchers Introduce PC-ALM, a Layer-Local Alternative to Backpropagation

Researchers introduce Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding to train deep networks without backpropagation.

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  1. Sakana AI Researchers Introduce PC-ALM, a Layer-Local Alternative to Backpropagation That Trains 1000-Layer Networks marktechpost.com
  2. Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding Hacker News

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  • Sakana AI
  • Jeffrey Seely
  • Julian Gould