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Relieving the reliance of neural network training on a global back-propagation (BP) has emerged as a notable research topic due to the biological implausibility and huge memory consumption caused by BP. Among the existing solutions, local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yibo Yang , Xiaojie Li , Motasem Alfarra , Hasan Hammoud , Adel Bibi , Philip Torr , Bernard Ghanem

The growing size of datasets and deep learning models has made faster and memory-efficient training crucial. Reversible transformers have recently been introduced as an exciting new method for extremely memory-efficient training, but they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Tyler Zhu , Karttikeya Mangalam

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

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

Training neural networks with reinforcement learning (RL) typically relies on backpropagation (BP), necessitating storage of activations from the forward pass for subsequent backward updates. Furthermore, backpropagating error signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Daniel Tanneberg

Backpropagation is the cornerstone of deep learning, but its reliance on symmetric weight transport and global synchronization makes it computationally expensive and biologically implausible. Feedback alignment offers a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jeonghwan Cheon , Jaehyuk Bae , Se-Bum Paik

Residual neural networks (ResNets) are a promising class of deep neural networks that have shown excellent performance for a number of learning tasks, e.g., image classification and recognition. Mathematically, ResNet architectures can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-26 S. Günther , L. Ruthotto , J. B. Schroder , E. C. Cyr , N. R. Gauger

Despite the notable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in solving complex tasks, the training process still remains considerable challenges. A primary obstacle is the substantial time required for training, particularly as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

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

Gradient-based algorithms for training ResNets typically require a forward pass of the input data, followed by back-propagating the objective gradient to update parameters, which are time-consuming for deep ResNets. To break the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qi Sun , Hexin Dong , Zewei Chen , Weizhen Dian , Jiacheng Sun , Yitong Sun , Zhenguo Li , Bin Dong

Deep neural network architectures have recently produced excellent results in a variety of areas in artificial intelligence and visual recognition, well surpassing traditional shallow architectures trained using hand-designed features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Catalin Ionescu , Orestis Vantzos , Cristian Sminchisescu

Deep residual networks (ResNets) have significantly pushed forward the state-of-the-art on image classification, increasing in performance as networks grow both deeper and wider. However, memory consumption becomes a bottleneck, as one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Aidan N. Gomez , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun , Roger B. Grosse

The backpropagation of error algorithm used to train deep neural networks has been fundamental to the successes of deep learning. However, it requires sequential backward updates and non-local computations, which make it challenging to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Beren Millidge , Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Lukasiewicz

This paper proposes a novel approach to train deep neural networks by unlocking the layer-wise dependency of backpropagation training. The approach employs additional modules called local critic networks besides the main network model to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Hojung Lee , Jong-seok Lee

Gradient-based methods for the distributed training of residual networks (ResNets) typically require a forward pass of the input data, followed by back-propagating the error gradient to update model parameters, which becomes time-consuming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Qi Sun , Hexin Dong , Zewei Chen , Jiacheng Sun , Zhenguo Li , Bin Dong

Deep learning models trained on large data sets have been widely successful in both vision and language domains. As state-of-the-art deep learning architectures have continued to grow in parameter count so have the compute budgets and times…

Deep artificial neural networks (DNNs) are typically trained via gradient-based learning algorithms, namely backpropagation. Evolution strategies (ES) can rival backprop-based algorithms such as Q-learning and policy gradients on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Felipe Petroski Such , Vashisht Madhavan , Edoardo Conti , Joel Lehman , Kenneth O. Stanley , Jeff Clune

Recurrent neural networks are a successful neural architecture for many time-dependent problems, including time series analysis, forecasting, and modeling of dynamical systems. Training such networks with backpropagation through time is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Erik Lien Bolager , Ana Cukarska , Iryna Burak , Zahra Monfared , Felix Dietrich

Deep learning harnesses massive parallel floating-point processing to train and evaluate large neural networks. Trends indicate that deeper and larger neural networks with an increasing number of parameters achieve higher accuracy than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Brad Larson , Bishal Upadhyaya , Luke McDermott , Siddha Ganju

Neural networks trained with backpropagation, the standard algorithm of deep learning which uses weight transport, are easily fooled by existing gradient-based adversarial attacks. This class of attacks are based on certain small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Mohamed Akrout