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Significant success has been reported recently using deep neural networks for classification. Such large networks can be computationally intensive, even after training is over. Implementing these trained networks in hardware chips with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-25 Daniel Soudry , Ron Meir

The back-propagation algorithm is the cornerstone of deep learning. Despite its importance, few variations of the algorithm have been attempted. This work presents an approach to discover new variations of the back-propagation equation. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Maximilian Alber , Irwan Bello , Barret Zoph , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Prajit Ramachandran , Quoc Le

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

Existing methods for estimating uncertainty in deep learning tend to require multiple forward passes, making them unsuitable for applications where computational resources are limited. To solve this, we perform probabilistic reasoning over…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-08 Javier Antorán , James Urquhart Allingham , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Extreme Learning Machines (ELMs) have become a popular tool in the field of Artificial Intelligence due to their very high training speed and generalization capabilities. Another advantage is that they have a single hyper-parameter that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Nicolás Nieto , Francisco Ibarrola , Victoria Peterson , Hugo Rufiner , Ruben Spies

The backpropagation algorithm, which had been originally introduced in the 1970s, is the workhorse of learning in neural networks. This backpropagation algorithm makes use of the famous machine learning algorithm known as Gradient Descent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Varun Ranganathan , S. Natarajan

The Backpropagation algorithm has often been criticised for its lack of biological realism. In an attempt to find a more biologically plausible alternative, the recently introduced Forward-Forward algorithm replaces the forward and backward…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Niccolò Tosato , Lorenzo Basile , Emanuele Ballarin , Giuseppe de Alteriis , Alberto Cazzaniga , Alessio Ansuini

The backpropagation algorithm, or backprop, is a widely utilized optimization technique in deep learning. While there's growing evidence suggesting that models trained with backprop can accurately explain neuronal data, no backprop-like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Gananath R

Deep neural networks employing error back-propagation for learning can suffer from exploding and vanishing gradient problems. Numerous solutions have been proposed such as normalisation techniques or limiting activation functions to linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sama Daryanavard , Bernd Porr

While backpropagation--reverse-mode automatic differentiation--has been extraordinarily successful in deep learning, it requires two passes (forward and backward) through the neural network and the storage of intermediate activations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Daniel Wang , Evan Markou , Dylan Campbell

Feedforward neural networks are widely used as universal predictive models to fit data distribution. Common gradient-based learning, however, suffers from many drawbacks making the training process ineffective and time-consuming.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Grzegorz Dudek

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) represent a promising approach in machine learning, combining the hierarchical learning capabilities of deep neural networks with the energy efficiency of spike-based computations. Traditional end-to-end…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Ruyin Wan , Qian Zhang , George Em Karniadakis

The Forward Forward algorithm, proposed by Geoffrey Hinton in November 2022, is a novel method for training neural networks as an alternative to backpropagation. In this project, we replicate Hinton's experiments on the MNIST dataset, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Saumya Gandhi , Ritu Gala , Jonah Kornberg , Advaith Sridhar

The concept of a recently proposed Forward-Forward learning algorithm for fully connected artificial neural networks is applied to a single multi output perceptron for classification. The parameters of the system are trained with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 K. Fredrik Karlsson

We introduce a new approach in distributed deep learning, utilizing Geoffrey Hinton's Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm to speed up the training of neural networks in distributed computing environments. Unlike traditional methods that rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Ege Aktemur , Ege Zorlutuna , Kaan Bilgili , Tacettin Emre Bok , Berrin Yanikoglu , Suha Orhun Mutluergil

Backpropagation algorithm is the cornerstone for neural network analysis. Paper extends it for training any derivatives of neural network's output with respect to its input. By the dint of it feedforward networks can be used to solve or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-13 V. I. Avrutskiy

Supervised learning in artificial neural networks typically relies on backpropagation, where the weights are updated based on the error-function gradients and sequentially propagated from the output layer to the input layer. Although this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Giorgia Dellaferrera , Gabriel Kreiman

With increasing scale in model and dataset size, the training of deep neural networks becomes a massive computational burden. One approach to speed up the training process is Selective Backprop. For this approach, we perform a forward pass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Lukas Balles , Cedric Archambeau , Giovanni Zappella

Artificial neural networks are most commonly trained with the back-propagation algorithm, where the gradient for learning is provided by back-propagating the error, layer by layer, from the output layer to the hidden layers. A recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Arild Nøkland

In many classification problems a classifier should be robust to small variations in the input vector. This is a desired property not only for particular transformations, such as translation and rotation in image classification problems,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-18 Sergey Demyanov , James Bailey , Ramamohanarao Kotagiri , Christopher Leckie