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cs.LG2026
Credit Assignment via Neural Manifold Noise Correlation
Byungwoo Kang, Maceo Richards, Bernardo Sabatini
Credit assignment--how changes in individual neurons and synapses affect a network's output--is central to learning in brains and machines. Noise correlation, which estimates gradi…
hep-th2016★ 97 cited
Conformal Symmetry Breaking and Thermodynamics of Near-Extremal Black Holes
Ahmed Almheiri, Byungwoo Kang
It has been argued recently by Almheiri and Polchinski that the near-horizon conformal symmetry of extremal black holes must be broken due to gravitational backreaction at an IR sc…
astro-ph.HE2016★ 7 cited
Acceleration of Thermal Protons By Generic Phenomenological Mechanisms
Vahé Petrosian, Byungwoo Kang
We investigate heating and acceleration of protons from a thermal gas with a generic diffusion and acceleration model, and subject to Coulomb scattering and energy loss, as was car…