arXiv Machine Learning By Wu S. Zihan, Ariane Delrocq, Wulfram Gerstner, Guillaume Bellec

Can Local Learning Match Self-Supervised Backpropagation?

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arXiv:2601. 21683v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While end-to-end self-supervised learning with backpropagation (global BP-SSL) has become central for training modern AI systems, theories of local self-supervised learning (local-SSL) have struggled to build functional representations in deep neural networks.

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FFR: Forward-Forward Learning for Regression

arXiv:2606. 03927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation (BP) by training neural networks through purely local, layer-wise optimization.

By Xinyang Liu, Xuanyu Liang, Shiqi Ding, Boyang Li, Zhiqiang Que, Jiayang Li, Guosheng Hu
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FFR: Forward-Forward Learning for Regression

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a computationally efficient and biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation (BP) by training neural networks through purely local, layer-wise optimization. However, FF is inherently designed for classification via contrastive positive-negative sample pairs, and extending it to regression poses fundamental challenges: continuous target space lack natural "opposites" for contrastive learning, and the standard goodness function carries no information about target magnitude or ordering.