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Oja's rule

A normalised Hebbian weight update from classical unsupervised learning whose fixed points align a unit with the leading principal component of its input distribution.

Known aliases

  • Oja update

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Deleting two terms from the tied-SAE gradient leaves the Oja update

A LessWrong post shows the Oja rule falling out of tied sparse-autoencoder descent once two terms are dropped, then reports a language-model test where an initialization change moved the backprop baseline more than the Hebbian gap it was meant to explain.

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