Sakana AI releases paper and code for augmented Lagrangian predictive coding
Sakana AI has published a paper and open-sourced code for an augmented Lagrangian predictive coding (PC-ALM) method, proposed as an alternative to backpropagation for training neural networks. The method is detailed in an arXiv paper and the implementation is available on GitHub.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31022 https://github.com/SakanaAI/pc-alm
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