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This paper presents a new learning algorithm, termed Deep Bi-directional Predictive Coding (DBPC) that allows developing networks to simultaneously perform classification and reconstruction tasks using the same weights. Predictive Coding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Senhui Qiu , Saugat Bhattacharyya , Damien Coyle , Shirin Dora

For energy-efficient computation in specialized neuromorphic hardware, we present spiking neural coding, an instantiation of a family of artificial neural models grounded in the theory of predictive coding. This model, the first of its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Alexander Ororbia

Deep learning has redefined the field of artificial intelligence (AI) thanks to the rise of artificial neural networks, which are architectures inspired by their neurological counterpart in the brain. Through the years, this dualism between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rafal Bogacz , Zhenghua Xu

Predictive coding (PC) is a biologically plausible alternative to standard backpropagation (BP) that minimises an energy function with respect to network activities before updating weights. Recent work has improved the training stability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Francesco Innocenti , El Mehdi Achour , Rafal Bogacz

The brain is believed to operate in part by making predictions about sensory stimuli and encoding deviations from these predictions in the activity of "prediction error neurons." This principle defines the widely influential theory of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-21 Vicky Zhu , Robert Rosenbaum

Patterns of microcircuitry suggest that the brain has an array of repeated canonical computational units. Yet neural representations are distributed, so the relevant computations may only be related indirectly to single-neuron…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-17 Rajkumar Vasudeva Raju , Zhe Li , Scott Linderman , Xaq Pitkow

Training with backpropagation (BP) in standard deep learning consists of two main steps: a forward pass that maps a data point to its prediction, and a backward pass that propagates the error of this prediction back through the network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Tommaso Salvatori , Luca Pinchetti , Beren Millidge , Yuhang Song , Tianyi Bao , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Predictive coding networks (PCNs) constitute a biologically inspired framework for understanding hierarchical computation in the brain, and offer an alternative to traditional feedforward neural networks in ML. This note serves as a quick,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mikko Stenlund

Neural Language Models of Code, or Neural Code Models (NCMs), are rapidly progressing from research prototypes to commercial developer tools. As such, understanding the capabilities and limitations of such models is becoming critical.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-29 David N. Palacio , Alejandro Velasco , Nathan Cooper , Alvaro Rodriguez , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

Predictive inference is a fundamental task in statistics, traditionally addressed using parametric assumptions about the data distribution and detailed analyses of how models learn from data. In recent years, conformal prediction has…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-26 Matteo Sesia , Stefano Favaro

Robotic systems operating at the edge require efficient online learning algorithms that can continuously adapt to changing environments while processing streaming sensory data. Traditional backpropagation, while effective, conflicts with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Darius Masoum Zadeh-Jousdani , Elvin Hajizada , Eyke Hüllermeier

Predictive coding theory suggests that the brain continuously anticipates upcoming words to optimize language processing, but the neural mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in naturalistic speech. Here, we simultaneously recorded EEG…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-11 Nikola Kölbl , Konstantin Tziridis , Andreas Maier , Thomas Kinfe , Ricardo Chavarriaga , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

From CNNs to attention mechanisms, encoding inductive biases into neural networks has been a fruitful source of improvement in machine learning. Adding auxiliary losses to the main objective function is a general way of encoding biases that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ferran Alet , Maria Bauza , Kenji Kawaguchi , Nurullah Giray Kuru , Tomas Lozano-Perez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Predictive coding (PC) networks are a biologically interesting class of neural networks. Their layered hierarchy mimics the reciprocal connectivity pattern observed in the mammalian cortex, and they can be trained using local learning rules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Jeff Orchard , Wei Sun

Understanding brain function, constructing computational models and engineering neural prosthetics require assessing two problems, namely encoding and decoding, but their relation remains controversial. For decades, the encoding problem has…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-16 Hugo Gabriel Eyherabide

In lifelong learning systems based on artificial neural networks, one of the biggest obstacles is the inability to retain old knowledge as new information is encountered. This phenomenon is known as catastrophic forgetting. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Robust information representation and its persistent maintenance are fundamental for higher cognitive functions. Existing models employ distinct neural mechanisms to separately address noise-resistant processing or information maintenance,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-19 Jie Su , Weiwei Wang , Zhaotian Gu , Dahui Wang , Tianyi Qian

Artificial neural networks are often interpreted as abstract models of biological neuronal networks, but they are typically trained using the biologically unrealistic backpropagation algorithm and its variants. Predictive coding has been…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-25 Robert Rosenbaum

While deep feature learning has revolutionized techniques for static-image understanding, the same does not quite hold for video processing. Architectures and optimization techniques used for video are largely based off those for static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Achal Dave , Olga Russakovsky , Deva Ramanan

Classic algorithms and machine learning systems like neural networks are both abundant in everyday life. While classic computer science algorithms are suitable for precise execution of exactly defined tasks such as finding the shortest path…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Felix Petersen