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In this work, we introduce DeepDFA, a novel approach to identifying Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs) from traces, harnessing a differentiable yet discrete model. Inspired by both the probabilistic relaxation of DFAs and Recurrent Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Elena Umili , Roberto Capobianco

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to be very successful in a wide range of image processing applications. However, due to their increasing number of model parameters and an increasing availability of large amounts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Axel Klawonn , Martin Lanser , Janine Weber

This work introduces a spike-based wearable analytics system utilizing Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) deployed on an In-memory Computing engine based on RRAM crossbars, which are known for their compactness and energy-efficiency. Given the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Jinquan Shi , Wei-Chen Chen , Xinxin Wang , Priyadarshini Panda

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have shown unparalleled achievements in numerous applications, reflecting their proficiency in managing vast data sets. Yet, their static structure limits their adaptability in ever-changing environments. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Yunjie Zhu , Yunhao Chen

Recent successes in image analysis with deep neural networks are achieved almost exclusively with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), typically trained using the backpropagation (BP) algorithm. In a 2022 preprint, Geoffrey Hinton proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Riccardo Scodellaro , Ajinkya Kulkarni , Frauke Alves , Matthias Schröter

Deep learning applications have achieved great success in numerous real-world applications. Deep learning models, especially Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are often prototyped using FPGA because it offers high power efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Adewale Adeyemo , Travis Sandefur , Tolulope A. Odetola , Syed Rafay Hasan

Recently developed adversarial weight attack, a.k.a. bit-flip attack (BFA), has shown enormous success in compromising Deep Neural Network (DNN) performance with an extremely small amount of model parameter perturbation. To defend against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Li Yang , Jingtao Li , Fan Yao , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo , Deliang Fan

Alternatives to backpropagation have long been studied to better understand how biological brains may learn. Recently, they have also garnered interest as a way to train neural networks more efficiently. By relaxing constraints inherent to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Matthew J. Filipovich , Alessandro Cappelli , Daniel Hesslow , Julien Launay

Detection transformers have recently shown promising object detection results and attracted increasing attention. However, how to develop effective domain adaptation techniques to improve its cross-domain performance remains unexplored and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wen Wang , Yang Cao , Jing Zhang , Fengxiang He , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yonggang Wen , Dacheng Tao

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

Despite being the workhorse of deep learning, the backpropagation algorithm is no panacea. It enforces sequential layer updates, thus preventing efficient parallelization of the training process. Furthermore, its biological plausibility is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-18 Julien Launay , Iacopo Poli , François Boniface , Florent Krzakala

The so-called Forward-Forward Algorithm (FFA) has recently gained momentum as an alternative to the conventional back-propagation algorithm for neural network learning, yielding competitive performance across various modeling tasks. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Erik B. Terres-Escudero , Javier Del Ser , Pablo Garcia Bringas

With an ever-growing number of parameters defining increasingly complex networks, Deep Learning has led to several breakthroughs surpassing human performance. As a result, data movement for these millions of model parameters causes a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Christopher Wolters , Brady Taylor , Edward Hanson , Xiaoxuan Yang , Ulf Schlichtmann , Yiran Chen

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

Traditional convolutional neural networks (CNN) are stationary and feedforward. They neither change their parameters during evaluation nor use feedback from higher to lower layers. Real brains, however, do. So does our Deep Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Marijn Stollenga , Jonathan Masci , Faustino Gomez , Juergen Schmidhuber

The paper proposes a new algorithm called SymBa that aims to achieve more biologically plausible learning than Back-Propagation (BP). The algorithm is based on the Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm, which is a BP-free method for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Heung-Chang Lee , Jeonggeun Song

Existing image recognition techniques based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) basically assume that the training and test datasets are sampled from i.i.d distributions. However, this assumption is easily broken in the real world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Kazuki Adachi , Shin'ya Yamaguchi

In this paper, we present a novel method for dynamically expanding Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) during training, aimed at meeting the increasing demand for efficient and sustainable deep learning models. Our approach, drawing from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Blaise Appolinary , Alex Deaconu , Sophia Yang , Qingze , Li

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

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