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In this paper, we introduce a new type of generalized neural network where neurons and synapses maintain multiple states. We show that classical gradient-based backpropagation in neural networks can be seen as a special case of a two-state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mark Sandler , Max Vladymyrov , Andrey Zhmoginov , Nolan Miller , Andrew Jackson , Tom Madams , Blaise Aguera y Arcas

An ongoing challenge in neuromorphic computing is to devise general and computationally efficient models of inference and learning which are compatible with the spatial and temporal constraints of the brain. One increasingly popular and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Emre Neftci , Charles Augustine , Somnath Paul , Georgios Detorakis

Memristor-based in-memory computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to overcome the constraints of the von Neumann bottleneck and the memory wall by enabling fully parallelisable and energy-efficient vector-matrix multiplications. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Michael Döll , Andreas Müller , Bernd Ulmann

How physical networks of neurons, bound by spatio-temporal locality constraints, can perform efficient credit assignment, remains, to a large extent, an open question. In machine learning, the answer is almost universally given by the error…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-13 Benjamin Ellenberger , Paul Haider , Jakob Jordan , Kevin Max , Ismael Jaras , Laura Kriener , Federico Benitez , Mihai A. Petrovici

Continual Instruction Tuning (CIT) is adopted to continually instruct Large Models to follow human intent data by data. It is observed that existing gradient update would heavily destroy the performance on previous datasets during CIT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jingyang Qiao , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Shouhong Ding , Yuan Xie

The back-propagation (BP) algorithm has been considered the de-facto method for training deep neural networks. It back-propagates errors from the output layer to the hidden layers in an exact manner using the transpose of the feedforward…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Hongyin Luo , Jie Fu , James Glass

We show that Oscillator Ising Machines (OIMs) are prime candidates for use as neuromorphic machine learning processors with Equilibrium Propagation (EP) based on-chip learning. The inherent energy gradient descent dynamics of OIMs, combined…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-19 Alex Gower

Metalearning of deep neural network (DNN) architectures and hyperparameters has become an increasingly important area of research. At the same time, network regularization has been recognized as a crucial dimension to effective training of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jason Liang , Santiago Gonzalez , Hormoz Shahrzad , Risto Miikkulainen

Backpropagation (BP) has been pivotal in advancing machine learning and remains essential in computational applications and comparative studies of biological and artificial neural networks. Despite its widespread use, the implementation of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-15 Xinhao Fan , Shreesh P Mysore

Machine learning is a powerful method of extracting meaning from data; unfortunately, current digital hardware is extremely energy-intensive. There is interest in an alternative analog computing implementation that could match the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jonathan Lin , Aman Desai , Frank Barrows , Francesco Caravelli

Efficient feature selection from high-dimensional datasets is a very important challenge in many data-driven fields of science and engineering. We introduce a statistical mechanics inspired strategy that addresses the problem of sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-07 Alfredo Braunstein , Thomas Gueudré , Andrea Pagnani , Mirko Pieropan

We propose Embedding Propagation (EP), an unsupervised learning framework for graph-structured data. EP learns vector representations of graphs by passing two types of messages between neighboring nodes. Forward messages consist of label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Alberto Garcia-Duran , Mathias Niepert

Recurrent neural networks trained with the backpropagation through time (BPTT) algorithm have led to astounding successes in various temporal tasks. However, BPTT introduces severe limitations, such as the requirement to propagate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Thomas Ortner , Lorenzo Pes , Joris Gentinetta , Charlotte Frenkel , Angeliki Pantazi

The success of deep learning, a brain-inspired form of AI, has sparked interest in understanding how the brain could similarly learn across multiple layers of neurons. However, the majority of biologically-plausible learning algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Alexander Meulemans , Francesco S. Carzaniga , Johan A. K. Suykens , João Sacramento , Benjamin F. Grewe

Exact inference in the linear regression model with spike and slab priors is often intractable. Expectation propagation (EP) can be used for approximate inference. However, the regular sequential form of EP (R-EP) may fail to converge in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-12-13 José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

Understanding how the brain learns may be informed by studying biologically plausible learning rules. These rules, often approximating gradient descent learning to respect biological constraints such as locality, must meet two critical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuhan Helena Liu , Guangyu Robert Yang , Christopher J. Cueva

Bayesian inference is a popular method to build learning algorithms but it is hampered by the fact that its key object, the posterior probability distribution, is often uncomputable. Expectation Propagation (EP) (Minka (2001)) is a popular…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-16 Guillaume P. Dehaene

The spiking neural network (SNN) mimics the information processing operation in the human brain, represents and transmits information in spike trains containing wealthy spatial and temporal information, and shows superior performance on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

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

The response time of physical computational elements is finite, and neurons are no exception. In hierarchical models of cortical networks each layer thus introduces a response lag. This inherent property of physical dynamical systems…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-28 Paul Haider , Benjamin Ellenberger , Laura Kriener , Jakob Jordan , Walter Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici