Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
21 points by guld 6 hours ago | 4 comments

guld 6 hours ago
New paper by Sakana.ai [1]

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31022

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cs702 2 hours ago
~90% accuracy on MNIST. Sigh.

How does it do on CIFAR-10, or even better, ImageNet?

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Lerc 46 minutes ago
It might be beneficial while not being optimal on its own.

The obvious example is if it has different behaviour around local minima, it could be an altenate pathway out.

I have often wondered if doing training with radically different aproaches for the first few iterarions would avoid any method specific artifacts before the weights had time to denoise.

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bz_bz_bz 59 minutes ago
Their image classification benchmarks include both: https://pub.sakana.ai/pc-alm/assets/figures/benchmark_accura...
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