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What does this suggest about biological neural systems?

• _rpd 5y ago
  There's been an argument that schemes relying on backpropagation can't provide insight into biological neural systems, but this argument is weakened by the existence of predictive coding equivalents.
• periheli0n 5y ago
  Predictive coding is based on a theory for brain operation that grounds in the ubiquity of recurrent connection between functional brain regions, where the forward pass transmits the prediction, and the backward pass transmits the error. Unlike backprop, this theory uses only local information, and is therefore somewhat more compatible with how the brain works. There is a huge body of work about this. The current paper seems to show that the result of predictive coding is equivalent to the result one gets with backprop. I think it says more about predictive coding as a way to train neural networks rather than biological systems.