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Kickback cuts Backprop's red-tape: Biologically plausible credit assignment in neural networks Bit of a meh -- idea is, rather than propagating error signals backwards through a hierarchy, you propagate only one layer + use a signed global reward signal. This works by keeping the network ‘coherent’ -- positive neurons have positive input weights, and negative neurons have negative weights, such that the overall effect of a weight change does not change sign when propagated forward through the network. This is kind of a lame shortcut, imho, as it limits the types of functions that the network can model & the computational structure of the network. This is already quite limited by the dot-product-rectifier common structure (as is used here). Much more interesting and possibly necessary (given much deeper architectures now) is to allow units to change sign. (Open question as to whether they actually frequently do!). As such, the model is in the vein of "how do we make backprop biologically plausible by removing features / communication" rather than "what sorts of signals and changes does the brain use perceive and generate behavior". This is also related to the literature on what ResNets do; what are the skip connections for? Amthropic has some interesting analyses for Transformer architectures, but checking the literature on other resnets is for another time. |