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Biological networks provide insight into the complex organization of biological processes in a cell at the system level. They are an effective tool for understanding the comprehensive map of functional interactions, finding the functional…

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A network supporting deep unsupervised learning is presented. The network is an autoencoder with lateral shortcut connections from the encoder to decoder at each level of the hierarchy. The lateral shortcut connections allow the higher…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-03 Harri Valpola

A large amount of recent research has the far-reaching goal of finding training methods for deep neural networks that can serve as alternatives to backpropagation (BP). A prominent example is predictive coding (PC), which is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Luca Pinchetti , Tommaso Salvatori , Yordan Yordanov , Beren Millidge , Yuhang Song , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Neuroscience has long informed the development of artificial neural networks, but the success of modern architectures invites, in turn, the converse: can modern networks teach us lessons about brain function? Here, we examine the structure…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-17 Peter Koenig , Mario Negrello

Visual-frame prediction is a pixel-dense prediction task that infers future frames from past frames. Lacking of appearance details, low prediction accuracy and high computational overhead are still major problems with current models or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Chaofan Ling , Junpei Zhong , Weihua Li

This study presents a dynamic neural network model based on the predictive coding framework for perceiving and predicting the dynamic visuo-proprioceptive patterns. In our previous study [1], we have shown that the deep dynamic neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Jungsik Hwang , Jinhyung Kim , Ahmadreza Ahmadi , Minkyu Choi , Jun Tani

Predictive coding (PC) is a brain-inspired local learning algorithm that has recently been suggested to provide advantages over backpropagation (BP) in biologically relevant scenarios. While theoretical work has mainly focused on showing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Francesco Innocenti , Ryan Singh , Christopher L. Buckley

Predictive coding graphs (PCGs) are a recently introduced generalization to predictive coding networks, a neuroscience-inspired probabilistic latent variable model. Here, we prove how PCGs define a mathematical superset of feedforward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Björn van Zwol

We examine two fundamental tasks associated with graph representation learning: link prediction and semi-supervised node classification. We present a novel autoencoder architecture capable of learning a joint representation of both local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Phi Vu Tran

To have a superior generalization, a deep learning neural network often involves a large size of training sample. With increase of hidden layers in order to increase learning ability, neural network has potential degradation in accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Lianfa Li , Ying Fang , Jun Wu , Jinfeng Wang

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming one of the key technologies of this century. The majority of results in AI thus far have been achieved using deep neural networks trained with a learning algorithm called error…

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Proteins are responsible for the most diverse set of functions in biology. The ability to extract information from protein sequences and to predict the effects of mutations is extremely valuable in many domains of biology and medicine.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-04 Sam Sinai , Eric Kelsic , George M. Church , Martin A. Nowak

Top-down feedback in cortex is critical for guiding sensory processing, which has prominently been formalized in the theory of hierarchical predictive coding (hPC). However, experimental evidence for error units, which are central to the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-23 Fabian A. Mikulasch , Lucas Rudelt , Michael Wibral , Viola Priesemann

Predictive coding (PC) is an influential computational model of visual learning and inference in the brain. Classical PC was proposed as a top-down generative model, where the brain actively predicts upcoming visual inputs, and inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Gaspard Oliviers , Mufeng Tang , Rafal Bogacz

Convolutional neural network (CNN) driven by image recognition has been shown to be able to explain cortical responses to static pictures at ventral-stream areas. Here, we further showed that such CNN could reliably predict and decode…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-15 Haiguang Wen , Junxing Shi , Yizhen Zhang , Kun-Han Lu , Jiayue Cao , Zhongming Liu

Empirical evidence shows that deep vision networks often represent concepts as directions in latent space with concept information written along directional components in the vector representation of the input. However, the mechanism to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Kurt Driessens , Dimitrios Zarpalas

Artificial neural networks have become important to improve the search for admissible string compactifications and characterize them. In this paper we construct the heterotic orbiencoder, a general deep autoencoder to study heterotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-31 Enrique Escalante-Notario , Ignacio Portillo-Castillo , Saul Ramos-Sanchez

Advances in variational inference enable parameterisation of probabilistic models by deep neural networks. This combines the statistical transparency of the probabilistic modelling framework with the representational power of deep learning.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Tom Pelsmaeker , Wilker Aziz

Autoencoders are unsupervised machine learning circuits whose learning goal is to minimize a distortion measure between inputs and outputs. Linear autoencoders can be defined over any field and only real-valued linear autoencoder have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Pierre Baldi , Zhiqin Lu

The cerebrovascular tree is a complex anatomical structure that plays a crucial role in the brain irrigation. A precise identification of the bifurcations in the vascular network is essential for understanding various cerebral pathologies.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Ibtissam Essadik , Anass Nouri , Raja Touahni , Florent Autrusseau