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The pursuit of energy-efficient and adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) has positioned neuromorphic computing as a promising alternative to conventional computing. However, achieving learning on these platforms requires techniques that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jesús García Fernández , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant success across various domains. However, training these LLMs typically involves substantial memory and computational costs during both forward and backward propagation. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Sunghyeon Woo , Baeseong Park , Byeongwook Kim , Minjung Jo , Se Jung Kwon , Dongsuk Jeon , Dongsoo Lee

We introduce WARP (Weight-space Adaptive Recurrent Prediction), a simple yet powerful model that unifies weight-space learning with linear recurrence to redefine sequence modeling. Unlike conventional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) which…

Primate vision depends on recurrent processing for reliable perception. A growing body of literature also suggests that recurrent connections improve the learning efficiency and generalization of vision models on classic computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Drew Linsley , Alekh Karkada Ashok , Lakshmi Narasimhan Govindarajan , Rex Liu , Thomas Serre

Backpropagation (BP) is a core component of the contemporary deep learning incarnation of neural networks. Briefly, BP is an algorithm that exploits the computational architecture of neural networks to efficiently evaluate the gradient of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-21 Dirk Ostwald , Franziska Usée

In the last decade, deep learning has become a major component of artificial intelligence. The workhorse of deep learning is the optimization of loss functions by stochastic gradient descent (SGD). Traditionally in deep learning, neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Benjamin Scellier

Training deep neural networks on large-scale datasets requires significant hardware resources whose costs (even on cloud platforms) put them out of reach of smaller organizations, groups, and individuals. Backpropagation, the workhorse for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

We present results from a new approach to learning and plasticity in neuromorphic hardware systems: to enable flexibility in implementable learning mechanisms while keeping high efficiency associated with neuromorphic implementations, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-14 Simon Friedmann , Johannes Schemmel , Andreas Gruebl , Andreas Hartel , Matthias Hock , Karlheinz Meier

Backpropagation is widely used to train artificial neural networks, but its relationship to synaptic plasticity in the brain is unknown. Some biological models of backpropagation rely on feedback projections that are symmetric with…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-08 Navid Shervani-Tabar , Robert Rosenbaum

Neuromorphic systems that employ advanced synaptic learning rules, such as the three-factor learning rule, require synaptic devices of increased complexity. Herein, a novel neoHebbian artificial synapse utilizing ReRAM devices has been…

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

Backpropagation (BP) has been a successful optimization technique for deep learning models. However, its limitations, such as backward- and update-locking, and its biological implausibility, hinder the concurrent updating of layers and do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Anzhe Cheng , Zhenkun Wang , Chenzhong Yin , Mingxi Cheng , Heng Ping , Xiongye Xiao , Shahin Nazarian , Paul Bogdan

The ability to reconstruct high-quality images from undersampled MRI data is vital in improving MRI temporal resolution and reducing acquisition times. Deep learning methods have been proposed for this task, but the lack of verified methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Samah Khawaled , Moti Freiman

Recent advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) owe their success to training algorithms that use backpropagation and gradient-descent. Backpropagation, while highly effective on von Neumann architectures, becomes inefficient when scaling to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Brian Crafton , Abhinav Parihar , Evan Gebhardt , Arijit Raychowdhury

Equilibrium propagation (EP) is an alternative to backpropagation (BP) that allows the training of deep neural networks with local learning rules. It thus provides a compelling framework for training neuromorphic systems and understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke

How can we effectively encode evolving information over dynamic graphs into low-dimensional representations? In this paper, we propose DyRep, an inductive deep representation learning framework that learns a set of functions to efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rakshit Trivedi , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Prasenjeet Biswal , Hongyuan Zha

Backpropagation (BP) remains the dominant and most successful method for training parameters of deep neural network models. However, BP relies on two computationally distinct phases, does not provide a satisfactory explanation of biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sander Dalm , Marcel van Gerven , Nasir Ahmad

Event-based machine learning promises more energy-efficient AI on future neuromorphic hardware. Here, we investigate how the recently discovered Eventprop algorithm for gradient descent on exact gradients in spiking neural networks can be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Thomas Nowotny , James P. Turner , James C. Knight

One major criticism of deep learning centers around the biological implausibility of the credit assignment schema used for learning -- backpropagation of errors. This implausibility translates into practical limitations, spanning scientific…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Adam Kohan , Beren Millidge , Tommaso Salvatori

Learning in uncertain, noisy, or adversarial environments is a challenging task for deep neural networks (DNNs). We propose a new theoretically grounded and efficient approach for robust learning that builds upon Bayesian estimation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Giuseppina Carannante , Dimah Dera , Ghulam Rasool , Nidhal C. Bouaynaya , Lyudmila Mihaylova