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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

We introduce Gradient Equilibrium Propagation (GradEP), a mechanism that extends Equilibrium Propagation (EP) to train energy gradients rather than energy minima, enabling EP to be applied to tasks where the learning objective depends on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-26 Alex Gower

Equilibrium propagation has been proposed as a biologically plausible alternative to the backpropagation algorithm. The local nature of gradient computations, combined with the use of convergent RNNs to reach equilibrium states, make this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Sankar Vinayak Elayedam , Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan

Recurrent spiking neural networks (RSNNs) hold great potential for advancing artificial general intelligence, as they draw inspiration from the biological nervous system and show promise in modeling complex dynamics. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Guan Wang , Yuhao Sun , Sijie Cheng , Sen Song

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) contain more biologically realistic structures and biologically-inspired learning principles than those in standard Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). SNNs are considered the third generation of ANNs, powerful…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tielin Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Xiang Cheng , Bo Xu

Throughout this paper, we focus on the improvement of the direct feedback alignment (DFA) algorithm and extend the usage of the DFA to convolutional and recurrent neural networks (CNNs and RNNs). Even though the DFA algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Donghyeon Han , Gwangtae Park , Junha Ryu , Hoi-jun Yoo

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) has enabled robust quadruped locomotion over complex terrain, but most learned controllers are trained offline with backpropagation in massively parallel simulation and deployed as fixed policies, limiting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhuangyu Han , Abhronil Sengupta

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

I propose a novel approach for nonlinear Logistic regression using a two-layer neural network (NN) model structure with hierarchical priors on the network weights. I present a hybrid of expectation propagation called Variational Expectation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-06 Kehinde Olobatuyi

Backpropagation (BP) has been a successful optimization technique for deep learning models. However, its limitations, such as backward- and update-locking, and its biological implausibility, hinder the concurrent updating of layers and do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Anzhe Cheng , Zhenkun Wang , Chenzhong Yin , Mingxi Cheng , Heng Ping , Xiongye Xiao , Shahin Nazarian , Paul Bogdan

This two-part paper develops a non-iterative coordinated optimal dispatch framework, i.e., free of iterative information exchange, via the innovation of the equivalent projection (EP) theory. The EP eliminates internal variables from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Zhenfei Tan , Zheng Yan , Haiwang Zhong , Qing Xia

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

Target Propagation (TP) is a biologically more plausible algorithm than the error backpropagation (BP) to train deep networks, and improving practicality of TP is an open issue. TP methods require the feedforward and feedback networks to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Tatsukichi Shibuya , Nakamasa Inoue , Rei Kawakami , Ikuro Sato

Stochastic gradient descent with backpropagation is the workhorse of artificial neural networks. It has long been recognized that backpropagation fails to be a biologically plausible algorithm. Fundamentally, it is a non-local procedure --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-24 Ganlin Song , Ruitu Xu , John Lafferty

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

Training networks consisting of biophysically accurate neuron models could allow for new insights into how brain circuits can organize and solve tasks. We begin by analyzing the extent to which the central algorithm for neural network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-22 James Hazelden , Yuhan Helena Liu , Eli Shlizerman , Eric Shea-Brown

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 real-world applications, fully-differentiable RNNs such as LSTMs and GRUs have been widely deployed to solve time series learning tasks. These networks train via Backpropagation Through Time, which can work well in practice but…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Matthew Evanusa , Snehesh Shrestha , Michelle Girvan , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

We introduce a robust, error-tolerant adaptive training algorithm for generalized learning paradigms in high-dimensional superposed quantum networks, or \emph{adaptive quantum networks}. The formalized procedure applies standard…

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