Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses
A learning approach that uses a second forward pass to form layerwise targets, exploring an alternative to symmetric backward weight propagation.
@article{assaquib2026forward,
title={Forward Target Propagation: A Forward-Only Approach to Global Error Credit Assignment via Local Losses},
author={As-Saquib, Nazmus Saadat and Abeer, A. N. M. Nafiz and Chien, Hung-Ta and Yoon, Byung-Jun and Kumar, Suhas and Yi, Su-in},
journal={Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
year={2026},
month={October},
eprint={2506.11030},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.LG},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11030}
}