Learning with augmented target information: An alternative theory of Feedback Alignment

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01406v1
• Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 22:44:03 GMT
• Title: Learning with augmented target information: An alternative theory of Feedback Alignment
• Authors: Huzi Cheng, Joshua W. Brown
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel theory of how Feedback Alignment (FA) works through the lens of information theory. FA learns effective representations by embedding target information into neural networks to be trained. We show this through the analysis of FA dynamics in idealized settings and then via a series of experiments.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: While error backpropagation (BP) has dominated the training of nearly all modern neural networks for a long time, it suffers from several biological plausibility issues such as the symmetric weight requirement and synchronous updates. Feedback Alignment (FA) was proposed as an alternative to BP to address those dilemmas and has been demonstrated to be effective on various tasks and network architectures. Despite its simplicity and effectiveness, a satisfying explanation of how FA works across different architectures is still lacking. Here we propose a novel, architecture-agnostic theory of how FA works through the lens of information theory: Instead of approximating gradients calculated by BP with the same parameter, FA learns effective representations by embedding target information into neural networks to be trained. We show this through the analysis of FA dynamics in idealized settings and then via a series of experiments. Based on the implications of this theory, we designed three variants of FA and show their comparable performance on several tasks. These variants also account for some phenomena and theories in neuroscience such as predictive coding and representational drift.

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