From 2ec92906b45018665de97d6de63d6a754a1508d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: YurenHao0426 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:05:04 -0500 Subject: analysis: identify hierarchical spatial credit bottleneck --- NOVELTY.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'NOVELTY.md') diff --git a/NOVELTY.md b/NOVELTY.md index cebc3ab..a40928c 100644 --- a/NOVELTY.md +++ b/NOVELTY.md @@ -50,6 +50,15 @@ BurstCCN already: Thus neither "apical dendrites carry vector errors", "the model reproduces Harnett Fig. 5", nor "a dendritic local rule scales to ImageNet" is a sufficient novelty claim. +Likewise, recursive spatial feedback, learned feedback convolutions, and local +ReLU-gated error propagation are not new by themselves. The post-failure +hierarchical oracle deliberately reconstructs a BP-like local adjoint and may +guide engineering, but it cannot be presented as an SDIL contribution. Any +trainable version must be compared directly with hierarchical FA, learned +feedback alignment/weight-mirroring methods, and BurstCCN. The Harnett-specific +claim remains the neutral-period somato-dendritic innovation operation under +mixed traffic. + ## Candidate SDIL contribution The candidate contribution is the combination -- cgit v1.2.3