3 papers
cs.LG2026
Score Broadcast and Decorrelation: A General Framework for Broadcast-Based Credit Assignment
Mustafa Uzun, Mete Erdogan, Cengiz Pehlevan +1
We introduce Score Broadcast and Decorrelation (SBD), a principled framework for broadcast-based credit assignment for general families of differentiable losses. Error broadcast is…
cs.NE2026
Correlative Information Maximization: A Biologically Plausible Approach to Supervised Deep Neural Networks without Weight Symmetry
Bariscan Bozkurt, Cengiz Pehlevan, Alper T Erdogan
The backpropagation algorithm has experienced remarkable success in training large-scale artificial neural networks; however, its biological plausibility has been strongly criticiz…
cs.LG2025
Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism
Mete Erdogan, Cengiz Pehlevan, Alper T. Erdogan
We introduce Error Broadcast and Decorrelation (EBD), a novel learning framework for neural networks that addresses credit assignment by directly broadcasting output errors to indi…