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The research presented in this paper advances the integration of Hebbian learning into Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image processing, systematically exploring different architectures to build an optimal configuration, adhering…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Julian Jimenez Nimmo , Esther Mondragon

Predictive coding networks are neural models that perform inference through an iterative energy minimization process, whose operations are local in space and time. While effective in shallow architectures, they suffer significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chang Qi , Matteo Forasassi , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Tommaso Salvatori

The brain processes information through many layers of neurons. This deep architecture is representationally powerful, but it complicates learning by making it hard to identify the responsible neurons when a mistake is made. In machine…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-04 Timothy P. Lillicrap , Daniel Cownden , Douglas B. Tweed , Colin J. Akerman

Despite being the workhorse of deep learning, the backpropagation algorithm is no panacea. It enforces sequential layer updates, thus preventing efficient parallelization of the training process. Furthermore, its biological plausibility is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-18 Julien Launay , Iacopo Poli , François Boniface , Florent Krzakala

The state-of-the art machine learning approach to training deep neural networks, backpropagation, is implausible for real neural networks: neurons need to know their outgoing weights; training alternates between a bottom-up forward pass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Roman Pogodin , Peter E. Latham

It is widely believed that the backpropagation algorithm is essential for learning good feature detectors in early layers of artificial neural networks, so that these detectors are useful for the task performed by the higher layers of that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Dmitry Krotov , John Hopfield

Humans can learn several tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference but perform more poorly when trained on multiple tasks at once. The opposite is true for standard deep neural networks. Here, we propose novel computational…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-07 Timo Flesch , David G. Nagy , Andrew Saxe , Christopher Summerfield

Recent work has shown that biologically plausible Hebbian learning can be integrated with backpropagation learning (backprop), when training deep convolutional neural networks. In particular, it has been shown that Hebbian learning can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Gabriele Lagani , Giuseppe Amato , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro

Learning in the brain is poorly understood and learning rules that respect biological constraints, yet yield deep hierarchical representations, are still unknown. Here, we propose a learning rule that takes inspiration from neuroscience and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Bernd Illing , Jean Ventura , Guillaume Bellec , Wulfram Gerstner

Learning algorithms for Deep Neural Networks are typically based on supervised end-to-end Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) training with error backpropagation (backprop). Backprop algorithms require a large number of labelled training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Gabriele Lagani , Claudio Gennaro , Hannes Fassold , Giuseppe Amato

While end-to-end training of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) yields state of the art performance in an increasing array of applications, it does not provide insight into, or control over, the features being extracted. We report here on a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Metehan Cekic , Can Bakiskan , Upamanyu Madhow

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve high accuracy but often rely on purely global, gradient-based optimisation, which can lead to overfitting, redundant filters, and reduced interpretability. To address these limitations, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Davorin Miličević , Ratko Grbić

After the tremendous development of neural networks trained by backpropagation, it is a good time to develop other algorithms for training neural networks to gain more insights into networks. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Benyamin Ghojogh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

Backpropagation algorithm has driven the remarkable success of deep neural networks, but its lack of biological plausibility and high computational costs have motivated the ongoing search for alternative training methods. Hebbian learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Wenjia Hua , Kejie Zhao , Luziwei Leng , Ran Cheng , Yuxin Ma , Qinghai Guo

Backpropagation has long been criticized for being biologically implausible due to its reliance on concepts that are not viable in natural learning processes. Two core issues are the weight transport and update locking problems caused by…

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

Training a deep neural network with the outputs of selected layers satisfying linear constraints is required in many contemporary data-driven applications. While this can be achieved by incorporating projection layers into the neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Zonglin Yang , Zhexuan Gu , Yancheng Yuan

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 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

While the backpropagation of error algorithm enables deep neural network training, it implies (i) bidirectional synaptic weight transport and (ii) update locking until the forward and backward passes are completed. Not only do these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-19 Charlotte Frenkel , Martin Lefebvre , David Bol

Supervised training of neural networks for classification is typically performed with a global loss function. The loss function provides a gradient for the output layer, and this gradient is back-propagated to hidden layers to dictate an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-09 Arild Nøkland , Lars Hiller Eidnes