Thomas Pluck's Blog

A Grid of 1,120 Analog Filters Can Learn MNIST

23/04/2026

A 28×10 rectangular lattice of tanh-filter cells, trained online with plain SGD at batch size 1, no learned encoder or decoder, 52% on row-wise MNIST.

Adaptive IIR Neurons with Closed-Form RTRL

18/12/2025

Making IIR filter coefficients input-dependent without breaking the elegance of real-time recurrent learning.

Equilibrium Propagation in the Complex Domain

5/10/2025

How does equilibrium propagation work in the complex domain?

DIMPLE's Energy Landscape

14/12/2024

The physics of DIMPLE and some unexpected properties