NoProp
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NoProp is a novel gradient-free learning method where each neural network layer independently learns to denoise a noisy version of the target, inspired by diffusion and flow matching. Unlike backpropagation, it avoids hierarchical representation learning and achieves competitive performance and efficiency on image classification benchmarks like MNIST and CIFAR.
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