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Continual Learning is a learning paradigm where learning systems are trained with sequential or streaming tasks. Two notable directions among the recent advances in continual learning with neural networks are ($i$) variational Bayes based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Abhishek Kumar , Sunabha Chatterjee , Piyush Rai

We present a theoretically well-founded deep learning algorithm for nonparametric regression. It uses over-parametrized deep neural networks with logistic activation function, which are fitted to the given data via gradient descent. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Michael Kohler , Adam Krzyzak

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) with backpropagation (BP) achieves state-of-the-art accuracy but requires global error propagation and full parameterization, leading to substantial memory and computational overhead. Direct Feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Arani Roy , Marco P. Apolinario , Shristi Das Biswas , Kaushik Roy

Deep learning networks have been trained to recognize speech, caption photographs and translate text between languages at high levels of performance. Although applications of deep learning networks to real world problems have become…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-02-13 Terrence J. Sejnowski

Benefiting from the joint learning of the multiple tasks in the deep multi-task networks, many applications have shown the promising performance comparing to single-task learning. However, the performance of multi-task learning framework is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Zuheng Ming , Junshi Xia , Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman , Jean-Christophe Burie , Kaixing Zhao

What makes untrained deep neural networks (DNNs) different from the trained performant ones? By zooming into the weights in well-trained DNNs, we found it is the location of weights that hold most of the information encoded by the training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yushi Qiu , Reiji Suda

Widespread deployment of relays can yield a significant boost in the throughput of forthcoming wireless networks. However, the optimal operation of large relay networks is still infeasible. This paper presents two approaches for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Itsik Bergel

The design and analysis of communication systems typically rely on the development of mathematical models that describe the underlying communication channel, which dictates the relationship between the transmitted and the received signals.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Nariman Farsad , Andrea Goldsmith

Recent works have examined theoretical and empirical properties of wide neural networks trained in the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) regime. Given that biological neural networks are much wider than their artificial counterparts, we consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Akhilan Boopathy , Ila Fiete

Questions remain on the robustness of data-driven learning methods when crossing the gap from simulation to reality. We utilize weight anchoring, a method known from continual learning, to cultivate and fixate desired behavior in Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Steffen Gracla , Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

In this work, we investigate how implicit neural feed back can accelerate reinforcement learning in complex robotic manipulation settings. While prior electroencephalogram (EEG) guided reinforcement learning studies have primarily focused…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Suzie Kim , Hye-Bin Shin , Hyo-Jeong Jang

Over the last four decades, the amazing success of deep learning has been driven by the use of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) as the main optimization technique. The default implementation for the computation of the gradient for SGD is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Qianli Liao , Liu Ziyin , Yulu Gan , Brian Cheung , Mark Harnett , Tomaso Poggio

The biological plausibility of the backpropagation algorithm has long been doubted by neuroscientists. Two major reasons are that neurons would need to send two different types of signal in the forward and backward phases, and that pairs of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Benjamin Scellier , Anirudh Goyal , Jonathan Binas , Thomas Mesnard , Yoshua Bengio

Neural networks have long strived to emulate the learning capabilities of the human brain. While deep neural networks (DNNs) draw inspiration from the brain in neuron design, their training methods diverge from biological foundations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Joseph Bingham , Saman Zonouz , Dvir Aran

In this paper, a machine learning based approach is introduced to estimate pendubot angular position from its captured images. Initially, a baseline algorithm is introduced to estimate the angle using conventional image processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Sina Khanagha

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are extensively employed to solve partial differential equations (PDEs) by ensuring that the outputs and gradients of deep learning models adhere to the governing equations. However, constrained by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Chenhao Si , Ming Yan

Deep learning needs high-precision handling of forwarding signals, backpropagating errors, and updating weights. This is inherently required by the learning algorithm since the gradient descent learning rule relies on the chain product of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yang Li , Wei Wang , Ming Wang , Chunmeng Dou , Zhengyu Ma , Huihui Zhou , Peng Zhang , Nicola Lepri , Xumeng Zhang , Qing Luo , Xiaoxin Xu , Guanhua Yang , Feng Zhang , Ling Li , Daniele Ielmini , Ming Liu

This study investigates how weight decay affects the update behavior of individual neurons in deep neural networks through a combination of applied analysis and experimentation. Weight decay can cause the expected magnitude and angular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Atli Kosson , Bettina Messmer , Martin Jaggi

We consider deep neural networks in a Bayesian framework with a prior distribution sampling the network weights at random. Following a recent idea of Agapiou and Castillo (2023), who show that heavy-tailed prior distributions achieve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-16 Ismaël Castillo , Paul Egels

Deep learning models suffer from catastrophic forgetting when trained in an incremental learning setting. In this work, we propose a novel approach to address the task incremental learning problem, which involves training a model on new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Pravendra Singh , Pratik Mazumder , Piyush Rai , Vinay P. Namboodiri