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Sakana AI introduces PC-ALM, a local-learning alternative to backpropagation that enables training of 1000-layer neural networks using only local dynamics.
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Sakana AI (@SakanaAILabs): Introducing PC-ALM, a local-learning alternative to backpropagation.
Our method trains 1000-layer neural nets using only local dynamics, and without backprop.
Blog: https://t.co/mE3je8t1Zq
Standard deep learning relies on backpropagation. The brain, however, cannot implement
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