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MIT models learning rules that organize into gradient descent

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The newsletter reports that MIT’s Self-Assembling Motif research demonstrates local synaptic rules organizing into gradient-descent behavior.

Reporting date: 2026-10-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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MIT models learning rules that organize into gradient descent
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Reporting date: 2026-10-12
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-12-self-assembling-motif
Claim: The newsletter reports that MIT’s Self-Assembling Motif research demonstrates local synaptic rules organizing into gradient-descent behavior.
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- Welcome to October 12, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-12-2026
- Source linked by the October 12 issue — https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2606245123
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