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Deep neural networks (DNNs) typically employ an end-to-end (E2E) training paradigm which presents several challenges, including high GPU memory consumption, inefficiency, and difficulties in model parallelization during training. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuming Zhang , Shouxin Zhang , Peizhe Wang , Feiyu Zhu , Dongzhi Guan , Junhao Su , Jiabin Liu , Changpeng Cai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming increasingly deeper, wider, and non-linear due to the growing demands on prediction accuracy and analysis quality. When training a DNN model, the intermediate activation data must be saved in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Sian Jin , Guanpeng Li , Shuaiwen Leon Song , Dingwen Tao

The ubiquitous backpropagation algorithm requires sequential updates through the network introducing a locking problem. In addition, back-propagation relies on the transpose of forward weight matrices to compute updates, introducing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 David Kappel , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Cabrel Teguemne Fokam , Christian Mayr , Anand Subramoney

Local learning offers an alternative to traditional end-to-end back-propagation in deep neural networks, significantly reducing GPU memory consumption. Although it has shown promise in image classification tasks, its extension to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Feiyu Zhu , Yuming Zhang , Xiuyuan Guo , Hengyu Shi , Junfeng Luo , Junhao Su , Jialin Gao

Traditional deep learning relies on end-to-end backpropagation for training, but it suffers from drawbacks such as high memory consumption and not aligning with biological neural networks. Recent advancements have introduced locally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Junhao Su , Chenghao He , Feiyu Zhu , Xiaojie Xu , Dongzhi Guan , Chenyang Si

This paper introduces Decoupled Supervised Learning with Information Regularization (DeInfoReg), a novel approach that transforms a long gradient flow into multiple shorter ones, thereby mitigating the vanishing gradient problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Zih-Hao Huang , You-Teng Lin , Hung-Hsuan Chen

The paper proposes a novel End-to-End Learning and Repair (E2ELR) architecture for training optimization proxies for economic dispatch problems. E2ELR combines deep neural networks with closed-form, differentiable repair layers, thereby…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Wenbo Chen , Mathieu Tanneau , Pascal Van Hentenryck

End-to-end autonomous driving has emerged as a dominant paradigm, yet its highly entangled black-box models pose significant challenges in terms of interpretability and safety assurance. To improve model transparency and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Ni Ding , Lei He , Shengbo Eben Li , Keqiang Li

It is widely believed that the backpropagation algorithm is essential for learning good feature detectors in early layers of artificial neural networks, so that these detectors are useful for the task performed by the higher layers of that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Dmitry Krotov , John Hopfield

Traditional end-to-end deep learning models often enhance feature representation and overall performance by increasing the depth and complexity of the network during training. However, this approach inevitably introduces issues of parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Yuming Zhang , Peizhe Wang , Shouxin Zhang , Dongzhi Guan , Jiabin Liu , Junhao Su

Training recurrent neural networks is predominantly achieved via backpropagation through time (BPTT). However, this algorithm is not an optimal solution from both a biological and computational perspective. A more efficient and biologically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Michael Hoyer , Shahram Eivazi , Sebastian Otte

Although deep learning approaches have stood out in recent years due to their state-of-the-art results, they continue to suffer from catastrophic forgetting, a dramatic decrease in overall performance when training with new classes added…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Francisco M. Castro , Manuel J. Marín-Jiménez , Nicolás Guil , Cordelia Schmid , Karteek Alahari

End-to-end training with full-depth backpropagation remains the dominant paradigm for optimizing deep neural networks, but its efficiency deteriorates as models grow deeper. Since every block must be executed and differentiated under a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuming Zhang , Peizhe Wang , Tianyang Han , Hengyu Shi , Junhao Su , Dongzhi Guan , Jiabin Liu , Jiaji Wang

The time required for training the neural networks increases with size, complexity, and depth. Training model parameters by backpropagation inherently creates feedback loops. These loops hinder efficient pipelining and scheduling of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Nanda K. Unnikrishnan , Keshab K. Parhi

Deep neural networks are typically trained using global error signals that backpropagate (BP) end-to-end, which is not only biologically implausible but also suffers from the update locking problem and requires huge memory consumption.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Chenxiang Ma , Jibin Wu , Chenyang Si , Kay Chen Tan

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art and sometimes super-human performance across various domains. However, when learning tasks sequentially, the networks easily forget the knowledge of previous tasks, known as "catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Shixiang Tang , Dapeng Chen , Jinguo Zhu , Shijie Yu , Wanli Ouyang

Training on edge devices enables personalized model fine-tuning to enhance real-world performance and maintain data privacy. However, the gradient computation for backpropagation in the training requires significant memory buffers to store…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 I-Hsuan Li , Tian-Sheuan Chang

Backpropagation underpins modern deep learning, yet its reliance on global gradient synchronization limits scalability and incurs high memory costs. In contrast, fully local learning rules are more efficient but often struggle to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Bojian Yin , Federico Corradi

Adopting large-scale AI models in enterprise information systems is often hindered by high training costs and long development cycles, posing a significant managerial challenge. The standard end-to-end backpropagation (BP) algorithm is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ming-Yao Ho , Cheng-Kai Wang , You-Teng Lin , Hung-Hsuan Chen

Relieving the reliance of neural network training on a global back-propagation (BP) has emerged as a notable research topic due to the biological implausibility and huge memory consumption caused by BP. Among the existing solutions, local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yibo Yang , Xiaojie Li , Motasem Alfarra , Hasan Hammoud , Adel Bibi , Philip Torr , Bernard Ghanem