From 5ef26ffbd8c99b2c15124277d545255c901f8c96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: YurenHao0426 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:41:42 -0500 Subject: docs: define novelty boundary for fast neutral projection --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 5af05cf..14a0b12 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ r_l = a_l - a_hat_l Delta W_l = eta (r_l * local postsynaptic gain) h_(l-1)^T. ``` +The standard-ResNet stability branch additionally uses a fast paired neutral +observation to project any *remaining* affine neutral residual off current +soma before plasticity. This local microphase is explicitly counted; it is not +described as single-phase or free. + `A_l` is calibrated from antithetic node perturbations without reverse-mode differentiation or weight transport. That learned-feedback mechanism is inherited from Lansdell, Prakash, and Kording (2020); it is not claimed as @@ -61,7 +66,12 @@ and scaling behavior. See `NOVELTY.md` for the exact prior-art boundary. 82.66%, and its frozen full gate reaches 91.26% versus matched BP's 91.62% with 0.9997 late feedback cosine. The subsequent frozen mixed-traffic screen nevertheless makes raw, norm-matched raw, and innovation all nonfinite in - epoch 1, so no full or confirmation panel opens. + epoch 1. A separately frozen operator-stability branch then rules out fixed + predictor margins and passes a dynamic paired-neutral controller: its D1 + 352-step trajectory is finite, and D2 reaches `83.58%` after 20 epochs versus + clean KP's `82.66%` and the failed mixed-traffic controls' `10%`, at `1.3261x` + BP MACs and zero task-loss queries. This is still one short validation seed; + the predeclared 200-epoch D3 run is in progress and test remains untouched. - Native author-code fidelity is complete. BurstCCN reaches `80.10%` at its validation-selected epoch versus published `82.97 +/- 0.21%`; Dual Prop reaches `92.46%` versus published `92.41 +/- 0.07%`. Their audited walls are @@ -83,12 +93,14 @@ somatic statistic rather than arbitrary top-down context. `ROADMAP.md` and - `BASELINES.md`: matched and native-author baseline ledger; - `ROADMAP.md`: accept/oral evidence gates and their state; - `MIXED_TRAFFIC.md`: frozen standard-ResNet raw/matched/innovation accept gate; +- `DYNAMIC_INNOVATION.md`: post-failure two-timescale stability theory and + frozen D1--D3 gates; - `ORAL_A.md`: frozen standard CIFAR ResNet funnel; - `ORAL_A_V2.md`: frozen post-failure representable-subspace funnel; - `ORAL_A_V3.md`: frozen vectorizer-space causal-calibration funnel; - `REVIEW_SCORECARD.md`: adversarial ICLR-style score trajectory; - `results/figs/`: deterministic PDF/PNG main figures, captions, and a source - hash manifest, plus the audited RRM endpoint-tracking failure supplement. + hash manifest, plus audited RRM failure and dynamic-stability supplements. The three current main figures show the local-method Pareto frontier, credit assignment versus depth, and the load-bearing innovation ablation. Every final -- cgit v1.2.3