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Neural network learning is usually time-consuming since backpropagation needs to compute full gradients and backpropagate them across multiple layers. Despite its success of existing works in accelerating propagation through sparseness, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Zhiyuan Zhang , Pengcheng Yang , Xuancheng Ren , Qi Su , Xu Sun

Recurrent networks are typically trained with backpropagation through time (BPTT). However, BPTT requires storing the history of all states in the network and then replaying them sequentially backwards in time. This computation appears…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Beren Millidge

In various scenarios motivated by real life, such as medical data analysis, autonomous driving, and adversarial training, we are interested in robust deep networks. A network is robust when a relatively small perturbation of the input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Patryk Krukowski , Daniel Wilczak , Jacek Tabor , Anna Bielawska , Przemysław Spurek

The success of deep learning, a brain-inspired form of AI, has sparked interest in understanding how the brain could similarly learn across multiple layers of neurons. However, the majority of biologically-plausible learning algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Alexander Meulemans , Francesco S. Carzaniga , Johan A. K. Suykens , João Sacramento , Benjamin F. Grewe

Training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with backpropagation through time (BPTT) has known drawbacks such as being difficult to capture longterm dependencies in sequences. Successful alternatives to BPTT have not yet been discovered.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Fangxin Shang , Hao Zhang

The way how recurrently connected networks of spiking neurons in the brain acquire powerful information processing capabilities through learning has remained a mystery. This lack of understanding is linked to a lack of learning algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Guillaume Bellec , Franz Scherr , Elias Hajek , Darjan Salaj , Robert Legenstein , Wolfgang Maass

This paper investigates the optimization of Truncated Backpropagation Through Time (TBPTT) for training neural networks in digital audio effect modeling, with a focus on dynamic range compression. The study evaluates key TBPTT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yann Bourdin , Pierrick Legrand , Fanny Roche

In the evolving landscape of neural network models, one prominent challenge stand out: the significant memory overheads associated with training expansive models. Addressing this challenge, this study delves deep into the Rotated Tensor…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Cheng Luo , Tianle Zhong , Geoffrey Fox

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are commonly used for real-time processing, streaming data, and cases where the amount of training samples is limited. Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) is the predominant algorithm for training RNNs;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nikolay Manchev , Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera

Backpropagation (BP) is widely used for calculating gradients in deep neural networks (DNNs). Applied often along with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) or its variants, BP is considered as a de-facto choice in a variety of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ziang Li , Yiwen Guo , Haodi Liu , Changshui Zhang

Dynamical networks are versatile models that can describe a variety of behaviours such as synchronisation and feedback. However, applying these models in real world contexts is difficult as prior information pertaining to the connectivity…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Eugene Tan , Débora Corrêa , Thomas Stemler , Michael Small

We define Recurrent Gaussian Processes (RGP) models, a general family of Bayesian nonparametric models with recurrent GP priors which are able to learn dynamical patterns from sequential data. Similar to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs),…

Large multilayer neural networks trained with backpropagation have recently achieved state-of-the-art results in a wide range of problems. However, using backprop for neural net learning still has some disadvantages, e.g., having to tune a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-16 José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Ryan P. Adams

Learning long-term dependencies is a key long-standing challenge of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Hierarchical recurrent neural networks (HRNNs) have been considered a promising approach as long-term dependencies are resolved through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Asier Mujika , Felix Weissenberger , Angelika Steger

Backpropagation (BP) is the standard algorithm for training the deep neural networks that power modern artificial intelligence including large language models. However, BP is energy inefficient and unlikely to be implemented by the brain.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Francesco Innocenti

Recently, a technique called Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) was shown to deliver insightful explanations in the form of input space relevances for understanding feed-forward neural network classification decisions. In the present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Leila Arras , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Temporal point process (TPP) is an important tool for modeling and predicting irregularly timed events across various domains. Recently, the recurrent neural network (RNN)-based TPPs have shown practical advantages over traditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-04 Zhiheng Chen , Guanhua Fang , Wen Yu

A major drawback of backpropagation through time (BPTT) is the difficulty of learning long-term dependencies, coming from having to propagate credit information backwards through every single step of the forward computation. This makes BPTT…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Nan Rosemary Ke , Anirudh Goyal , Olexa Bilaniuk , Jonathan Binas , Laurent Charlin , Chris Pal , Yoshua Bengio

We describe recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which have attracted great attention on sequential tasks, such as handwriting recognition, speech recognition and image to text. However, compared to general feedforward neural networks, RNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Gang Chen

Inference for probabilistic graphical models is still very much a practical challenge in large domains. The commonly used and effective belief propagation (BP) algorithm and its generalizations often do not converge when applied to hard,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Gal Elidan , Ian McGraw , Daphne Koller