no code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Ruben Ohana, Hamlet J. Medina Ruiz, Julien Launay, Alessandro Cappelli, Iacopo Poli, Liva Ralaivola, Alain Rakotomamonjy
Optical Processing Units (OPUs) -- low-power photonic chips dedicated to large scale random projections -- have been used in previous work to train deep neural networks using Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA), an effective alternative to backpropagation.
