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Re:Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding by Lerc on Monday September 14, 2026 @06:26PM (#49705063)
It might be beneficial while not being optimal on its own.

The obvious example is if it has different behaviour around local minima, it could be an altenate pathway out.

I have often wondered if doing training with radically different aproaches for the first few iterarions would avoid any method specific artifacts before the weights had time to denoise.

Re:Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding by dnautics on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:32PM (#49706969)
You can probably distribute training more easily too
Re:Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding by cs702 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:48AM (#49710023)
Yes, it's interesting research, I agree and even wrote so in my post :-)

But the submission title calls it a "backprop alternative." It is not, at least not yet.