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Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has achieved great success in training deep neural network, where the gradient is computed through back-propagation. However, the back-propagated values of different layers vary dramatically. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Training the deep convolutional neural network for computer vision problems is slow and inefficient, especially when it is large and distributed across multiple devices. The inefficiency is caused by the backpropagation algorithm's forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 An Xu , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

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

Embedding parameterized optimization problems as layers into machine learning architectures serves as a powerful inductive bias. Training such architectures with stochastic gradient descent requires care, as degenerate derivatives of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Anselm Paulus , Georg Martius , Vít Musil

Brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) are recognized as a promising avenue for achieving efficient, low-energy neuromorphic computing. Direct training of SNNs typically relies on surrogate gradient (SG) learning to estimate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiaqiang Jiang , Wenfeng Xu , Jing Fan , Rui Yan

In this work we apply model averaging to parallel training of deep neural network (DNN). Parallelization is done in a model averaging manner. Data is partitioned and distributed to different nodes for local model updates, and model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Hang Su , Haoyu Chen

Neural network training is inherently sequential where the layers finish the forward propagation in succession, followed by the calculation and back-propagation of gradients (based on a loss function) starting from the last layer. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Vahid Janfaza , Shantanu Mandal , Farabi Mahmud , Abdullah Muzahid

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

Empowered by the backpropagation (BP) algorithm, deep neural networks have dominated the race in solving various cognitive tasks. The restricted training pattern in the standard BP requires end-to-end error propagation, causing large memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wenzhe Guo , Mohammed E Fouda , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Khaled N. Salama

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) efficiently is a challenge due to the associated highly nonconvex optimization. The backpropagation (backprop) algorithm has long been the most widely used algorithm for gradient computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Tim Tsz-Kit Lau , Jinshan Zeng , Baoyuan Wu , Yuan Yao

In standard neural network training, the gradients in the backward pass are determined by the forward pass. As a result, the two stages are coupled. This is how most neural networks are trained currently. However, gradient modification in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Bishshoy Das , Milton Mondal , Brejesh Lall , Shiv Dutt Joshi , Sumantra Dutta Roy

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art and sometimes super-human performance across various domains. However, when learning tasks sequentially, the networks easily forget the knowledge of previous tasks, known as "catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Shixiang Tang , Dapeng Chen , Jinguo Zhu , Shijie Yu , Wanli Ouyang

We propose an algorithm capable of identifying and eliminating irrelevant layers of a neural network during the early stages of training. In contrast to weight or filter-level pruning, layer pruning reduces the harder to parallelize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Valentin Frank Ingmar Guenter , Athanasios Sideris

Applying Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) to training modern, large-scale neural networks such as transformer-based models is a challenging task, as the magnitude of noise added to the gradients at each iteration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ryuichi Ito , Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yuya Sasaki , Makoto Onizuka

Deep neural networks are typically trained using global error signals that backpropagate (BP) end-to-end, which is not only biologically implausible but also suffers from the update locking problem and requires huge memory consumption.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Chenxiang Ma , Jibin Wu , Chenyang Si , Kay Chen Tan

In decentralized learning, a network of nodes cooperate to minimize an overall objective function that is usually the finite-sum of their local objectives, and incorporates a non-smooth regularization term for the better generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Xuanjie Li , Yuedong Xu , Jessie Hui Wang , Xin Wang , John C. S. Lui

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network-based symbol detection and demodulation is proposed for generalized frequency division multiplexing with index modulation (GFDM-IM) scheme in order to improve the error performance of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Merve Turhan , Ersin Öztürk , Hakan Ali Çırpan

Scalability is a significant challenge when it comes to applying differential privacy to training deep neural networks. The commonly used DP-SGD algorithm struggles to maintain a high level of privacy protection while achieving high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kamil Adamczewski , Yingchen He , Mijung Park

Artificial Intelligence algorithms have been steadily increasing in popularity and usage. Deep Learning, allows neural networks to be trained using huge datasets and also removes the need for human extracted features, as it automates the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Vasco Lopes , Paulo Fazendeiro

Distributed synchronous stochastic gradient descent has been widely used to train deep neural networks on computer clusters. With the increase of computational power, network communications have become one limiting factor on system…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shaohuai Shi , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li