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Using back-propagation and its variants to train deep networks is often problematic for new users. Issues such as exploding gradients, vanishing gradients, and high sensitivity to weight initialization strategies often make networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Alexander G. Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Traditional backpropagation of error, though a highly successful algorithm for learning in artificial neural network models, includes features which are biologically implausible for learning in real neural circuits. An alternative called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Nasir Ahmad , Marcel A. J. van Gerven , Luca Ambrogioni

Back-propagation is a popular machine learning algorithm that uses gradient descent in training neural networks for supervised learning, but can be very slow. A number of algorithms have been developed to speed up convergence and improve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ho Ling Li

Back-propagation algorithm is one of the most widely used and popular techniques to optimize the feed forward neural network training. Nature inspired meta-heuristic algorithms also provide derivative-free solution to optimize complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Sudarshan Nandy , Partha Pratim Sarkar , Achintya Das

The feedback alignment (FA) algorithm offers a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation (BP) for training neural networks yet notably fails to scale to convolutional architectures. Modifications have been proposed to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jake Lance , Larry Kieu

Artificial neural networks, one of the most successful approaches to supervised learning, were originally inspired by their biological counterparts. However, the most successful learning algorithm for artificial neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Matilde Tristany Farinha , Sérgio Pequito , Pedro A. Santos , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

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

Error backpropagation is a highly effective mechanism for learning high-quality hierarchical features in deep networks. Updating the features or weights in one layer, however, requires waiting for the propagation of error signals from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hesham Mostafa , Vishwajith Ramesh , Gert Cauwenberghs

Backpropagation is the foundational algorithm for training neural networks and a key driver of deep learning's success. However, its biological plausibility has been challenged due to three primary limitations: weight symmetry, reliance on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Changze Lv , Jingwen Xu , Yiyang Lu , Xiaohua Wang , Zhenghua Wang , Zhibo Xu , Di Yu , Xin Du , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

The backpropagation algorithm has experienced remarkable success in training large-scale artificial neural networks; however, its biological plausibility has been strongly criticized, and it remains an open question whether the brain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Bariscan Bozkurt , Cengiz Pehlevan , Alper T Erdogan

The backpropagation algorithm is an invaluable tool for training artificial neural networks; however, because of a weight sharing requirement, it does not provide a plausible model of brain function. Here, in the context of a two-layer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Siavash Golkar , David Lipshutz , Yanis Bahroun , Anirvan M. Sengupta , Dmitri B. Chklovskii

Training networks consisting of biophysically accurate neuron models could allow for new insights into how brain circuits can organize and solve tasks. We begin by analyzing the extent to which the central algorithm for neural network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-22 James Hazelden , Yuhan Helena Liu , Eli Shlizerman , Eric Shea-Brown

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 is a cornerstone algorithm in training neural networks for supervised learning, which uses a gradient descent method to update network weights by minimizing the discrepancy between actual and desired outputs. Despite its…

By and large, Backpropagation (BP) is regarded as one of the most important neural computation algorithms at the basis of the progress in machine learning, including the recent advances in deep learning. However, its computational structure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Alessandro Betti , Marco Gori , Giuseppe Marra

In this paper we study a constraint-based representation of neural network architectures. We cast the learning problem in the Lagrangian framework and we investigate a simple optimization procedure that is well suited to fulfil the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Giuseppe Marra , Matteo Tiezzi , Stefano Melacci , Alessandro Betti , Marco Maggini , Marco Gori

Deeply-learned planning methods are often based on learning representations that are optimized for unrelated tasks. For example, they might be trained on reconstructing the environment. These representations are then combined with predictor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Hlynur Davíð Hlynsson , Merlin Schüler , Robin Schiewer , Tobias Glasmachers , Laurenz Wiskott

Intelligent techniques are urged to achieve automatic allocation of the computing resource in Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN), to save computing resource, increase utilization rate of them and decrease the delay. However, the existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Gan Ruan , Leandro L. Minku , Zhao Xu , Xin Yao

Nearly all state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms rely on error backpropagation, which is generally regarded as biologically implausible. An alternative way of training an artificial neural network is through treating each unit in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Stephen Chung

Evolutionary algorithms (EA), a class of stochastic search methods based on the principles of natural evolution, have received widespread acclaim for their exceptional performance in various real-world optimization problems. While…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yanjie Song , Yutong Wu , Yangyang Guo , Ran Yan , P. N. Suganthan , Yue Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Swagatam Das , Rammohan Mallipeddi , Oladayo Solomon Ajani. Qiang Feng
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