@article{syntheticbenchmarksoverstateforwardforwa, title = {Synthetic Benchmarks Overstate Forward-Forward Scaling: Real-Data Limits of Layer-Local Training}, author = {Yucheng Chen}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.06539}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06539}, }