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The backpropagation algorithm, despite its widespread use in neural network learning, may not accurately emulate the human cortex's learning process. Alternative strategies, such as the Forward-Forward Algorithm (FFA), offer a closer match…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Desmond Y. M. Tang

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

We consider artificial neurons which will update their weight coefficients with an internal rule based on backpropagation, rather than using it as an external training procedure. To achieve this we include the backpropagation error estimate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. N. Nazarov

We propose a novel approach to reduce memory consumption of the backpropagation through time (BPTT) algorithm when training recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Our approach uses dynamic programming to balance a trade-off between caching of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Audrūnas Gruslys , Remi Munos , Ivo Danihelka , Marc Lanctot , Alex Graves

The standard model of memory consolidation foresees that memories are initially recorded in the hippocampus, while features that capture higher-level generalisations of data are created in the cortex, where they are stored for a possibly…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-20 Alessandro Fontana

The on-chip implementation of learning algorithms would speed-up the training of neural networks in crossbar arrays. The circuit level design and implementation of backpropagation algorithm using gradient descent operation for neural…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Olga Krestinskaya , Khaled Nabil Salama , Alex Pappachen James

Despite substantial research into the biological basis of memory, the precise mechanisms by which experiences are encoded, stored, and retrieved in the brain remain incompletely understood. A growing body of evidence supports the engram…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Daniel Szelogowski

The Engram module -- a hash-keyed, O(1) associative memory injected into Transformer layers -- was recently shown to improve large language model pretraining, with the appealing interpretation that it provides a content-addressed shortcut…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jinghao Wang , Qiyuan He , Chunbin Gu , Pheng-Ann Heng

Backpropagation is driving today's artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, despite extensive research, it remains unclear if the brain implements this algorithm. Among neuroscientists, reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are often…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-24 Benjamin James Lansdell , Prashanth Ravi Prakash , Konrad Paul Kording

Although backpropagation is widely accepted as a training algorithm for artificial neural networks, researchers are always looking for inspiration from the brain to find ways with potentially better performance. Forward-Forward is a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Hossein Aghagolzadeh , Mehdi Ezoji

Delay-coupled electro-optical systems have received much attention for their dynamical properties and their potential use in signal processing. In particular it has recently been demonstrated, using the artificial intelligence algorithm…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Michiel Hermans , Piotr Antonik , Marc Haelterman , Serge Massar

Backpropagation is a cornerstone algorithm in training neural networks for supervised learning, which uses a gradient descent method to update network weights by minimizing the discrepancy between actual and desired outputs. Despite its…

Significant success has been reported recently using deep neural networks for classification. Such large networks can be computationally intensive, even after training is over. Implementing these trained networks in hardware chips with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-25 Daniel Soudry , Ron Meir

Optics is an exciting route for the next generation of computing hardware for machine learning, promising several orders of magnitude enhancement in both computational speed and energy efficiency. However, to reach the full capacity of an…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 James Spall , Xianxin Guo , A. I. Lvovsky

Machine learning algorithms, and more in particular neural networks, arguably experience a revolution in terms of performance. Currently, the best systems we have for speech recognition, computer vision and similar problems are based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Michiel Hermans , Michaël Burm , Joni Dambre , Peter Bienstman

The backpropagation of error algorithm (BP) is impossible to implement in a real brain. The recent success of deep networks in machine learning and AI, however, has inspired proposals for understanding how the brain might learn across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Sergey Bartunov , Adam Santoro , Blake A. Richards , Luke Marris , Geoffrey E. Hinton , Timothy Lillicrap

How the brain performs credit assignment is a fundamental unsolved problem in neuroscience. Many `biologically plausible' algorithms have been proposed, which compute gradients that approximate those computed by backpropagation (BP), and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Beren Millidge , Yuhang Song , Tommaso Salvatori , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rafal Bogacz

The backpropagation (BP) algorithm is often thought to be biologically implausible in the brain. One of the main reasons is that BP requires symmetric weight matrices in the feedforward and feedback pathways. To address this "weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Will Xiao , Honglin Chen , Qianli Liao , Tomaso Poggio

Ever since the advent of the neuron doctrine more than a century ago, information processing in the brain is widely believed to mainly follow the forward pre to post-synaptic neurons direction. Challenging this prevalent view, in this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-15 Zied Ben Houidi

A wide range of evidence points toward the existence of a common algorithm underlying the processing of information throughout the cerebral cortex. Several hypothesized features of this cortical algorithm are reviewed, including sparse…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-19 Michael R. Ferrier