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The Price of Locality: Why Forward-Forward Underperforms Backpropagation?

Wu, Zhaoxian et al.
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The Forward-Forward Algorithm (FFA) replaces backpropagation (BP) with layer-wise local contrastive objectives, eliminating the backward pass and the need to retain intermediate activations, yet suffers a persistent performance gap with BP that worsens with depth. This paper diagnoses two structural
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