Research
Bio-plausible learning almost matches PPO—but hits a hard wall
A backprop-free agent using predictive coding and Hebbian plasticity reaches 57% win rate on Pong versus PPO's 59%. The real bottleneck isn't gradient descent—it's catastrophic forgetting under changing opponents.
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We've long assumed backpropagation is necessary for competitive reinforcement learning. A recent experiment challenges that assumption—and reveals something more interesting than the headline pe...
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- Reddit · reddit-machinelearning
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