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Sakana Researchers Introduce Layer-Local Training Method

Sep 14, 2026, first seen via MarkTechPost

Sakana AI researchers introduced PC-ALM, a predictive-coding method that reportedly matches backpropagation while training 1,000-layer networks locally.

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