Diffusing Blame: Competitive Learning with Dale's Principle Constraints
July 17, 2026
This method enables neural networks to strictly enforce Dale's principle by separating excitatory and inhibitory neurons. Using an Error Diffusion local rule, the approach facilitates competitive learning in image classification and reinforcement learning without requiring weight transport.
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researcherYou can explore biologically plausible learning rules that bypass the weight transport problem in deep networks.