From 4855e065e8426244035b5ef9c0b4a4b74da163ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: YurenHao0426 Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 22:45:41 -0500 Subject: Initialize project notes --- notes/README.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 notes/README.md (limited to 'notes/README.md') diff --git a/notes/README.md b/notes/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db6bcfa --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# Notes + +This folder collects working notes for the project tentatively titled: + +**Distributional Capacity Bounds for Feedback Alignment in Multilayer Perceptrons** + +Use this directory as the project memory. Keep rough ideas here before promoting them into a paper draft or experiments. + +## Files + +- [00_project_overview.md](00_project_overview.md): high-level thesis, contribution map, and scope. +- [01_theory_notes.md](01_theory_notes.md): notation, theorem candidates, proof sketches, and open theoretical gaps. +- [02_experiment_notes.md](02_experiment_notes.md): validation plan, metrics, datasets, and plotting ideas. +- [03_paper_outline.md](03_paper_outline.md): draft paper structure and section-level writing plan. + +## Note Conventions + +- Prefer formulas and precise claims over prose-only ideas. +- Mark unproven statements as `Conjecture` or `Hypothesis`. +- Mark results ready for paper text as `Candidate theorem`, `Candidate proposition`, or `Candidate corollary`. +- Keep experiment ideas close to the metric they test. +- When a note depends on an assumption, write the assumption explicitly. -- cgit v1.2.3