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This paper investigates the optimization of Truncated Backpropagation Through Time (TBPTT) for training neural networks in digital audio effect modeling, with a focus on dynamic range compression. The study evaluates key TBPTT…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yann Bourdin , Pierrick Legrand , Fanny Roche

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are promising energy-efficient models for neuromorphic computing. For training the non-differentiable SNN models, the backpropagation through time (BPTT) with surrogate gradients (SG) method has achieved high…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qingyan Meng , Mingqing Xiao , Shen Yan , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Zhi-Quan Luo

Learning long-term dependencies is a key long-standing challenge of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Hierarchical recurrent neural networks (HRNNs) have been considered a promising approach as long-term dependencies are resolved through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Asier Mujika , Felix Weissenberger , Angelika Steger

Recurrent networks are typically trained with backpropagation through time (BPTT). However, BPTT requires storing the history of all states in the network and then replaying them sequentially backwards in time. This computation appears…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Beren Millidge

Directly training spiking neural networks (SNNs) has remained challenging due to complex neural dynamics and intrinsic non-differentiability in firing functions. The well-known backpropagation through time (BPTT) algorithm proposed to train…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Wenzhe Guo , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Khaled Nabil Salama

Constructing states from sequences of observations is an important component of reinforcement learning agents. One solution for state construction is to use recurrent neural networks. Back-propagation through time (BPTT), and real-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Khurram Javed , Haseeb Shah , Rich Sutton , Martha White

Recurrent neural networks are widely used in speech and language processing. Due to dependency on the past, standard algorithms for training these models, such as back-propagation through time (BPTT), cannot be efficiently parallelised.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Zhengxiong Wang , Anton Ragni

We describe recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which have attracted great attention on sequential tasks, such as handwriting recognition, speech recognition and image to text. However, compared to general feedforward neural networks, RNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Gang Chen

We introduce the "NoBackTrack" algorithm to train the parameters of dynamical systems such as recurrent neural networks. This algorithm works in an online, memoryless setting, thus requiring no backpropagation through time, and is scalable,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Yann Ollivier , Corentin Tallec , Guillaume Charpiat

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are promising brain-inspired energy-efficient models. Recent progress in training methods has enabled successful deep SNNs on large-scale tasks with low latency. Particularly, backpropagation through time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Mingqing Xiao , Qingyan Meng , Zongpeng Zhang , Di He , Zhouchen Lin

Brains remain unrivaled in their ability to recognize and generate complex spatiotemporal patterns. While AI is able to reproduce some of these capabilities, deep learning algorithms remain largely at odds with our current understanding of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-13 Simon Brandt , Paul Haider , Walter Senn , Federico Benitez , Mihai A. Petrovici

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are commonly trained with the truncated backpropagation-through-time (TBPTT) algorithm. For the purposes of computational tractability, the TBPTT algorithm truncates the chain rule and calculates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Samuel Chun-Hei Lam , Justin Sirignano , Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are commonly used for real-time processing, streaming data, and cases where the amount of training samples is limited. Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) is the predominant algorithm for training RNNs;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Nikolay Manchev , Luis C. Garcia-Peraza-Herrera

Recent insights have revealed that rate-coding is a primary form of information representation captured by surrogate-gradient-based Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) in training deep Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs). Motivated by these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Chengting Yu , Lei Liu , Gaoang Wang , Erping Li , Aili Wang

Recurrent neural networks trained with the backpropagation through time (BPTT) algorithm have led to astounding successes in various temporal tasks. However, BPTT introduces severe limitations, such as the requirement to propagate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Thomas Ortner , Lorenzo Pes , Joris Gentinetta , Charlotte Frenkel , Angeliki Pantazi

This paper describes experimental results regarding the real time implementation of continuous time recurrent neural networks (CTRNN) and the dynamic back-propagation through time (BPTT) algorithm for the on-line learning control laws.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Patrick Henaff , Vincent Scesa , Fethi Ben Ouezdou , Olivier Bruneau

Time series modeling, a crucial area in science, often encounters challenges when training Machine Learning (ML) models like Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) using the conventional mini-batch training strategy that assumes independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Shaoming Xu , Ankush Khandelwal , Arvind Renganathan , Vipin Kumar

Predictive Coding (PC) is a biologically-inspired learning framework characterised by local, parallelisable operations, properties that enable energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic hardware. Despite this, extending PC effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tom Potter , Oliver Rhodes

Random backpropagation (RBP) is a variant of the backpropagation algorithm for training neural networks, where the transpose of the forward matrices are replaced by fixed random matrices in the calculation of the weight updates. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Pierre Baldi , Peter Sadowski , Zhiqin Lu

The de facto algorithm for training the back pass of a feedforward neural network is backpropagation (BP). The use of almost-everywhere differentiable activation functions made it efficient and effective to propagate the gradient backwards…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 John Waldo