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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses

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This paper cites Rumelhart, Geoffrey E.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Rumelhart, Geoffrey E

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This paper cites Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Unresolved cited work

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Whittington and Rafal Bogacz

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Kendall, R

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This paper cites Alec Talin, Matthew J.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Alec Talin, Matthew J

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This paper cites Stanley Williams, and Vivek Srikumar.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Stanley Williams, and Vivek Srikumar

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This paper cites Stanley Williams, J.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Stanley Williams, J

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This paper cites Design considerations for efficient deep neural networks on processing-in- memory accelerators.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Design considerations for efficient deep neural networks on processing-in- memory accelerators

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This paper cites Lillicrap, Adam Santoro, Luke Marris, Colin J.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Lillicrap, Adam Santoro, Luke Marris, Colin J

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This paper cites Bengio, P.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Bengio, P

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This paper cites The recent excitement about neural networks.Nature, 337(6203):129–132, January 1989.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses The recent excitement about neural networks.Nature, 337(6203):129–132, January 1989

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This paper cites Energy-based learning algorithms for analog computing: A comparative study.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Energy-based learning algorithms for analog computing: A comparative study

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This paper cites Lillicrap, Daniel Cownden, Douglas B.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Lillicrap, Daniel Cownden, Douglas B

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This paper cites How Auto-Encoders Could Provide Credit Assignment in Deep Networks via Target Propagation.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses How Auto-Encoders Could Provide Credit Assignment in Deep Networks via Target Propagation

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This paper cites The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations

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This paper cites Predictive Coding: a Theoretical and Experimental Review.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Predictive Coding: a Theoretical and Experimental Review

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This paper cites Direct feedback alignment provides learning in deep neural networks.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Direct feedback alignment provides learning in deep neural networks

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This paper cites Learning without feedback: Fixed random learning signals allow for feedforward training of deep neural networks.Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15:629892, 2021.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Learning without feedback: Fixed random learning signals allow for feedforward training of deep neural networks.Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15:629892, 2021

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This paper cites Equilibrium propagation: Bridging the gap between energy-based models and backpropagation.Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 11:24, 2017.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Equilibrium propagation: Bridging the gap between energy-based models and backpropagation.Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 11:24, 2017

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This paper cites Difference target propagation.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Difference target propagation

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This paper cites A theoretical framework for target propagation.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 33:20024–20036, 2020.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses A theoretical framework for target propagation.Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 33:20024–20036, 2020

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Towards scaling difference target propagation by learning backprop targets

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Ororbia and Ankur Mali

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Ororbia, Ankur Mali, Daniel Kifer, and C

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This paper cites Fixed-weight difference target propagation.Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(8):9811–9819, June 2023.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Fixed-weight difference target propagation.Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(8):9811–9819, June 2023

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This paper cites Error-driven input modulation: Solving the credit assignment problem without a backward pass.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Error-driven input modulation: Solving the credit assignment problem without a backward pass

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This paper cites Dendritic localized learning: Toward biologically plausible algorithm, 2025.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Dendritic localized learning: Toward biologically plausible algorithm, 2025

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses The Predictive Forward-Forward Algorithm

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Modeling long- and short-term temporal patterns with deep neural networks.The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval, 2017

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This paper cites Meta-learning biologically plausible plasticity rules with random feedback pathways.Nature Communications, 14(1), March 2023.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Meta-learning biologically plausible plasticity rules with random feedback pathways.Nature Communications, 14(1), March 2023

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Philip Wong, and Gert Cauwenberghs

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This paper cites On the accuracy of analog neural network inference accelerators.IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 22(4):26–48, 2023.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses On the accuracy of analog neural network inference accelerators.IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, 22(4):26–48, 2023

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This paper cites Mlcommons tiny benchmark github repository.https://github.com/mlcommons/tiny,.

Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Mlcommons tiny benchmark github repository.https://github.com/mlcommons/tiny,

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Suitability of forward-forward and pepita learning to mlcommons-tiny benchmarks

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Delving deep into rectifiers: Surpassing human-level performance on imagenet classification

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Lecun, L

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Fashion-MNIST: a Novel Image Dataset for Benchmarking Machine Learning Algorithms

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Learning multiple layers of features from tiny images

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Zidan, John Paul Strachan, and Wei D

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Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses Joshua Yang, and He Qian

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