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A method to increase the precision of feedforward networks is proposed. It requires a prior knowledge of a target function derivatives of several orders and uses this information in gradient based training. Forward pass calculates not only…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 V. I. Avrutskiy

The gradients used to train neural networks are typically computed using backpropagation. While an efficient way to obtain exact gradients, backpropagation is computationally expensive, hinders parallelization, and is biologically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Katharina Flügel , Daniel Coquelin , Marie Weiel , Charlotte Debus , Achim Streit , Markus Götz

Artificial neural networks are most commonly trained with the back-propagation algorithm, where the gradient for learning is provided by back-propagating the error, layer by layer, from the output layer to the hidden layers. A recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Arild Nøkland

The ubiquitous backpropagation algorithm requires sequential updates through the network introducing a locking problem. In addition, back-propagation relies on the transpose of forward weight matrices to compute updates, introducing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 David Kappel , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Cabrel Teguemne Fokam , Christian Mayr , Anand Subramoney

Training neural networks has traditionally relied on backpropagation (BP), a gradient-based algorithm that, despite its widespread success, suffers from key limitations in both biological and hardware perspectives. These include backward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Nazmus Saadat As-Saquib , A N M Nafiz Abeer , Hung-Ta Chien , Byung-Jun Yoon , Suhas Kumar , Su-in Yi

The neural plausibility of backpropagation has long been disputed, primarily for its use of non-local weight transport $-$ the biologically dubious requirement that one neuron instantaneously measure the synaptic weights of another. Until…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-26 Daniel Kunin , Aran Nayebi , Javier Sagastuy-Brena , Surya Ganguli , Jonathan M. Bloom , Daniel L. K. Yamins

The backpropagation algorithm for neural networks is widely felt hard to understand, despite the existence of some well-written explanations and/or derivations. This paper provides a new derivation of this algorithm based on the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yiping Cheng

Learning deeper convolutional neural networks becomes a tendency in recent years. However, many empirical evidences suggest that performance improvement cannot be gained by simply stacking more layers. In this paper, we consider the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Li Shen , Zhouchen Lin , Qingming Huang

The high computational and parameter complexity of neural networks makes their training very slow and difficult to deploy on energy and storage-constrained computing systems. Many network complexity reduction techniques have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Charbel Sakr , Naresh Shanbhag

We propose a simple yet effective technique for neural network learning. The forward propagation is computed as usual. In back propagation, only a small subset of the full gradient is computed to update the model parameters. The gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Xu Sun , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma , Houfeng Wang

Backpropagation is driving today's artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, despite extensive research, it remains unclear if the brain implements this algorithm. Among neuroscientists, reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-24 Benjamin James Lansdell , Prashanth Ravi Prakash , Konrad Paul Kording

The de facto algorithm for training the back pass of a feedforward neural network is backpropagation (BP). The use of almost-everywhere differentiable activation functions made it efficient and effective to propagate the gradient backwards…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 John Waldo

Backpropagation algorithm is indispensable for the training of feedforward neural networks. It requires propagating error gradients sequentially from the output layer all the way back to the input layer. The backward locking in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Zhouyuan Huo , Bin Gu , Qian Yang , Heng Huang

In this work we unify a number of inference learning methods, that are proposed in the literature as alternative training algorithms to the ones based on regular error back-propagation. These inference learning methods were developed with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Christopher Zach

As traditional neural network consumes a significant amount of computing resources during back propagation, \citet{Sun2017mePropSB} propose a simple yet effective technique to alleviate this problem. In this technique, only a small subset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Bingzhen Wei , Xu Sun , Xuancheng Ren , Jingjing Xu

Despite considerable theoretical progress in the training of neural networks viewed as a multi-agent system of neurons, particularly concerning biological plausibility and decentralized training, their applicability to real-world problems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Arshia Soltani Moakhar , Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Hossein Mirzaei , Mohammad Taghi Manzuri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

The vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to adversarial examples has drawn great attention from the community. In this paper, we study the transferability of such examples, which lays the foundation of many black-box attacks on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yiwen Guo , Qizhang Li , Hao Chen

Deep learning models have gained great success in many real-world applications. However, most existing networks are typically designed in heuristic manners, thus lack of rigorous mathematical principles and derivations. Several recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Risheng Liu , Xin Fan , Shichao Cheng , Xiangyu Wang , Zhongxuan Luo

Target Propagation (TP) is a biologically more plausible algorithm than the error backpropagation (BP) to train deep networks, and improving practicality of TP is an open issue. TP methods require the feedforward and feedback networks to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Tatsukichi Shibuya , Nakamasa Inoue , Rei Kawakami , Ikuro Sato

Adaptive Precision Training: Quantify Back Propagation in Neural Networks with Fixed-point Numbers. Recent emerged quantization technique has been applied to inference of deep neural networks for fast and efficient execution. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Xishan Zhang , Shaoli Liu , Rui Zhang , Chang Liu , Di Huang , Shiyi Zhou , Jiaming Guo , Yu Kang , Qi Guo , Zidong Du , Yunji Chen