Alternative learning mechanisms

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Machine learning

Many people, including Geoffrey Hinton, have raised concerns about the back-propagation algorithm and the fact that it’s likely not a promising way to achieve Artificial Intelligence (see this Axios blog post).

Alternative mechanisms for learning have been and are currently studied to try and approach the learning problem in a more effective way.

Direct feedback alignment

(Nøkland 2016)

Hebbian learning

The theory is sometimes summarized as “Cells that fire together wire together.”.

Bibliography

Nøkland, Arild. 2016. “Direct Feedback Alignment Provides Learning in Deep Neural Networks.” arXiv:1609.01596 [Cs, Stat], December.