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The Backprop algorithm for learning in neural networks utilizes two mechanisms: first, stochastic gradient descent and second, initialization with small random weights, where the latter is essential to the effectiveness of the former. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Shibhansh Dohare , Richard S. Sutton , A. Rupam Mahmood

We revisit the source image estimation problem from blind source separation (BSS). We generalize the traditional minimum distortion principle to maximum likelihood estimation with a model for the residual spectrograms. Because residual…

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Many neural network speaker recognition systems model each speaker using a fixed-dimensional embedding vector. These embeddings are generally compared using either linear or 2nd-order scoring and, until recently, do not handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jason Pelecanos , Quan Wang , Ignacio Lopez Moreno

In traditional boosting algorithms, the focus on misclassified training samples emphasizes their importance based on difficulty during the learning process. While using a standard Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a weak learner in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junbo Jacob Lian

This work presents a method for reducing memory consumption to a constant complexity when training deep neural networks. The algorithm is based on the more biologically plausible alternatives of the backpropagation (BP): direct feedback…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Tien Chu , Kamil Mykitiuk , Miron Szewczyk , Adam Wiktor , Zbigniew Wojna

Using coherent optical detection and digital signal processing, laser phase noise and equalization enhanced phase noise can be effectively mitigated using the feed-forward and feed-back carrier phase recovery approaches. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-23 Tianhua Xu , Gunnar Jacobsen , Sergei Popov , Jie Li , Tiegen Liu , Yimo Zhang , Polina Bayvel

In this work, we introduce a stochastic maximum principle (SMP) approach for solving the reinforcement learning problem with the assumption that the unknowns in the environment can be parameterized based on physics knowledge. For the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Richard Archibald , Feng Bao , Jiongmin Yong

The Sparse Distributed Memory proposed by Pentii Kanerva (SDM in short) was thought to be a model of human long term memory. The architecture of the SDM permits to store binary patterns and to retrieve them using partially matching…

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We propose a statistical benchmark for diffusion posterior sampling (DPS) algorithms for Bayesian linear inverse problems. The benchmark synthesizes signals from sparse L\'evy-process priors whose posteriors admit efficient Gibbs methods.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Martin Zach , Youssef Haouchat , Michael Unser

Despite noise suppression being a mature area in signal processing, it remains highly dependent on fine tuning of estimator algorithms and parameters. In this paper, we demonstrate a hybrid DSP/deep learning approach to noise suppression. A…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jean-Marc Valin

Backpropagation underpins modern deep learning, yet its reliance on global gradient synchronization limits scalability and incurs high memory costs. In contrast, fully local learning rules are more efficient but often struggle to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Bojian Yin , Federico Corradi

Belief Propagation (BP) is an important message-passing algorithm for various reasoning tasks over graphical models, including solving the Constraint Optimization Problems (COPs). It has been shown that BP can achieve state-of-the-art…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yanchen Deng , Shufeng Kong , Caihua Liu , Bo An

The canonical deep learning approach for learning requires computing a gradient term at each block by back-propagating the error signal from the output towards each learnable parameter. Given the stacked structure of neural networks, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qinyu Li , Yee Whye Teh , Razvan Pascanu

Integration of Answer Set Programming (ASP) with neural networks has emerged as a promising tool in Neuro-symbolic AI. While existing approaches extend the capabilities of ASP to real world domains, their reasoning pipelines depend on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Thomas Eiter , Katsumi Inoue , Sota Moriyama

Modern neural network training relies on piece-wise (sub-)differentiable functions in order to use backpropagation to update model parameters. In this work, we introduce a novel method to allow simple non-differentiable functions at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jason Ramapuram , Russ Webb

Empowered by the backpropagation (BP) algorithm, deep neural networks have dominated the race in solving various cognitive tasks. The restricted training pattern in the standard BP requires end-to-end error propagation, causing large memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wenzhe Guo , Mohammed E Fouda , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Khaled N. Salama

In this paper, we investigate noncoherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) ultra-wideband (UWB) systems where the signal is encoded by differential space-time block code (DSTBC). DSTBC enables noncoherent MIMO UWB systems to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Taotao Wang , Tiejun Lv , Hui Gao , Yueming Lu

Blindly decoding a signal requires estimating its unknown transmit parameters, compensating for the wireless channel impairments, and identifying the modulation type. While deep learning can solve complex problems, digital signal processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Samer Hanna , Chris Dick , Danijela Cabric

This work presents a stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) algorithm that aims at minimizing an economic criteria based on the total energy consumption of a range extender electric vehicle (REEV). This algorithm integrates information from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 K. Aouchiche , J. Frederic Bonnans , Giovanni Granato , Hasnaa Zidani

Efficient symbol detection algorithms carry critical importance for achieving the spatial multiplexing gains promised by multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we consider a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc , Yuichi Kakishima