Workshop
Localized Learning: Decentralized Model Updates via Non-Global Objectives
David I. Inouye · Mengye Ren · Mateusz Malinowski · Michael Eickenberg · Gao Huang · Eugene Belilovsky
Meeting Room 310
Sat 29 Jul, noon PDT
Despite being widely used, global end-to-end learning has several key limitations. It requires centralized computation, making it feasible only on a single device or a carefully synchronized cluster. This restricts its use on unreliable or resource-constrained devices, such as commodity hardware clusters or edge computing networks. As the model size increases, synchronized training across devices will impact all types of parallelism. Global learning also requires a large memory footprint, which is costly and limits the learning capability of single devices. Moreover, end-to-end learning updates have high latency, which may prevent their use in real-time applications such as learning on streaming video. Finally, global backpropagation is thought to be biologically implausible, as biological synapses update in a local and asynchronous manner. To overcome these limitations, this workshop will delve into the fundamentals of localized learning, which is broadly defined as any training method that updates model parts through non-global objectives.
Schedule
Sat 12:00 p.m. - 12:05 p.m.
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Opening Remarks
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David I. Inouye 🔗 |
Sat 12:05 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.
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Geoffrey Hinton: Can the brain do weight-sharing?
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Sat 12:50 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
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Emergent learning that outperforms global objectives
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Invited Talk
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Timoleon (Timos) Moraitis 🔗 |
Sat 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Morning Poster Session
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Sat 2:00 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.
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Local learning in recurrent networks modelling motor cortex
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Invited Talk
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Claudia Clopath 🔗 |
Sat 2:25 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
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Local Learning for Higher Parallelism
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Invited Talk
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Edouard Oyallon 🔗 |
Sat 2:50 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Dual Propagation: Accelerating Contrastive Hebbian Learning with Dyadic Neurons
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Best Contributed Paper
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Rasmus Kjær Høier 🔗 |
Sat 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Lunch Break and Informal Poster Session
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Sat 4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
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Irina Rish: Backpropagation Alternatives and Scalable AI
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Keynote
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Irina Rish 🔗 |
Sat 5:15 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
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Training Spiking Neural Networks with Local Tandem Learning
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Invited Talk
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SlidesLive Video |
Qu Yang 🔗 |
Sat 5:40 p.m. - 6:05 p.m.
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Lessons of Local Learning in Training LLMs
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Invited Talk
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Stephen Gou 🔗 |
Sat 6:05 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
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Understanding Predictive Coding as an Adaptive Trust-Region Method
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Best Contributed Paper
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Francesco Innocenti 🔗 |
Sat 6:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Short Break and Informal Poster Session
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Sat 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.
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Panel - Geoffrey Hinton, Irina Rish, Edouard Oyallon, Timoleon Moraitis - Localized Learning: Past, Present and Future
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Discussion Panel
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Mengye Ren 🔗 |
Sat 7:15 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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Afternoon Poster Session
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Decentralized Plasticity in Reservoir Dynamical Networks for Pervasive Environments ( Poster ) > link | Valerio De Caro · Davide Bacciu · Claudio Gallicchio 🔗 |
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Localizing Partial Model for Personalized Federated Learning ( Poster ) > link | Heewon Park · Miru Kim · Minhae Kwon 🔗 |
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Learning Recurrent Models with Temporally Local Rules ( Poster ) > link | Azwar Abdulsalam · Joseph Makin 🔗 |
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Metric Compatible Training for Online Backfilling in Large-Scale Retrieval ( Poster ) > link | Seonguk Seo · Mustafa Gokhan Uzunbas · Bohyung Han · Xuefei Cao · Joena Zhang · Taipeng Tian · Ser Nam Lim 🔗 |
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Towards Modular Machine Learning Pipelines ( Poster ) > link | Aditya Modi · JIVAT NEET KAUR · Maggie Makar · Pavan Mallapragada · Amit Sharma · Emre Kiciman · Adith Swaminathan 🔗 |
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Lightweight Learner for Shared Knowledge Lifelong Learning ( Poster ) > link |
15 presentersYunhao Ge · Yuecheng Li · Di Wu · Ao Xu · Adam Jones · Amanda Rios · Iordanis Fostiropoulos · shixian wen · Po-Hsuan Huang · Zachary W. Murdock · Gozde Sahin · Shuo Ni · Kiran Lekkala · Sumedh Sontakke · Laurent Itti |
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Internet Learning: Preliminary Steps Towards Highly Fault-Tolerant Learning on Device Networks ( Poster ) > link | Surojit Ganguli · Avi Amalanshu · Amritanshu Ranjan · David I. Inouye 🔗 |
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Simplifying Distributed Neural Network Training on Massive Graphs: Randomized Partitions Improve Model Aggregation ( Poster ) > link | Jiong Zhu · Aishwarya Naresh Reganti · Edward Huang · Charles Dickens · Nikhil Rao · Karthik Subbian · Danai Koutra 🔗 |
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Co-Dream: Collaborative data synthesis with decentralized models ( Poster ) > link | Abhishek Singh · Gauri Gupta · Charles Lu · Yogesh Koirala · Sheshank Shankar · Mohammed Ehab · Ramesh Raskar 🔗 |
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Energy-Based Learning Algorithms: A Comparative Study ( Poster ) > link | Benjamin Scellier · Maxence Ernoult · Jack Kendall · Suhas Kumar 🔗 |
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Associative memory and deep learning with Hebbian synaptic and structural plasticity ( Poster ) > link | Naresh Balaji Ravichandran · Anders Lansner · Pawel Herman 🔗 |
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Dataset Pruning Using Early Exit Networks ( Poster ) > link | Alperen Gormez · Erdem Koyuncu 🔗 |
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Dual Propagation: Accelerating Contrastive Hebbian Learning with Dyadic Neurons ( Poster ) > link | Rasmus Kjær Høier · D. Staudt · Christopher Zach 🔗 |
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MOLE: MOdular Learning FramEwork via Mutual Information Maximization ( Poster ) > link | Tianchao Li · Yulong Pei 🔗 |
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Preventing Dimensional Collapse in Contrastive Local Learning with Subsampling ( Poster ) > link | Louis Fournier · Adeetya Patel · Michael Eickenberg · Edouard Oyallon · Eugene Belilovsky 🔗 |
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The Local Inconsistency Resolution Algorithm ( Poster ) > link | Oliver Richardson 🔗 |
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Gradient Scaling on Deep Spiking Neural Networks with Spike-Dependent Local Information ( Poster ) > link |
12 presentersSeongsik Park · Jeonghee Jo · Jongkil Park · Yeonjoo Jeong · Jaewook Kim · Suyoun Lee · Joon Young Kwak · Inho Kim · Jong-keuk Park · Kyeong Lee · Hwang Weon · Hyun Jae Jang |
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Breaking the Curse of Multiagents in a Large State Space: RL in Markov Games with Independent Linear Function Approximation ( Poster ) > link | Qiwen Cui · Kaiqing Zhang · Simon Du 🔗 |
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Understanding Predictive Coding as a Second-Order Trust-Region Method ( Poster ) > link | Francesco Innocenti · Ryan Singh · Christopher Buckley 🔗 |
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Unlocking the Potential of Similarity Matching: Scalability, Supervision and Pre-training ( Poster ) > link | Yanis Bahroun · Shagesh Sridharan · Atithi Acharya · Dmitri Chklovskii · Anirvan Sengupta 🔗 |
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Beyond weight plasticity: Local learning with propagation delays in spiking neural networks ( Poster ) > link | Jørgen Farner · Ola Ramstad · Stefano Nichele · Kristine Heiney 🔗 |
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Auto-Aligning Multiagent Incentives with Global Objectives ( Poster ) > link | Minae Kwon · John Agapiou · Edgar Duéñez-Guzmán · Romuald Elie · Georgios Piliouras · Kalesha Bullard · Ian Gemp 🔗 |
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Layer-Wise Feedback Alignment is Conserved in Deep Neural Networks ( Poster ) > link | Zach Robertson · Sanmi Koyejo 🔗 |