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Biological systems leverage top-down feedback for visual processing, yet most artificial vision models succeed in image classification using purely feedforward or recurrent architectures, calling into question the functional significance of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Antonino Greco , Marco D'Alessandro , Karl J. Friston , Giovanni Pezzulo , Markus Siegel

Modern feedforward convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can now solve some computer vision tasks at super-human levels. However, these networks only roughly mimic human visual perception. One difference from human vision is that they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zhaoyang Pang , Callum Biggs O'May , Bhavin Choksi , Rufin VanRullen

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

Traditional predictive coding networks, inspired by theories of brain function, consistently achieve promising results across various domains, extending their influence into the field of computer vision. However, the performance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 A S M Sharifuzzaman Sagar , Yu Chen , Jun Hoong Chan

Backpropagation (BP) is the standard algorithm for training the deep neural networks that power modern artificial intelligence including large language models. However, BP is energy inefficient and unlikely to be implemented by the brain.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Francesco Innocenti

There is an increasing convergence between biologically plausible computational models of inference and learning with local update rules and the global gradient-based optimization of neural network models employed in machine learning. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Andre Ofner , Raihan Kabir Ratul , Suhita Ghosh , Sebastian Stober

Recent years have witnessed the great success of convolutional neural network (CNN) based models in the field of computer vision. CNN is able to learn hierarchically abstracted features from images in an end-to-end training manner. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Xin Li , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Changsong Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Despite their renowned predictive power on i.i.d. data, convolutional neural networks are known to rely more on high-frequency patterns that humans deem superficial than on low-frequency patterns that agree better with intuitions about what…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Haohan Wang , Songwei Ge , Eric P. Xing , Zachary C. Lipton

Predictive coding-inspired deep networks for visual computing integrate classification and reconstruction processes in shared intermediate layers. Although synergy between these processes is commonly assumed, it has yet to be convincingly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Jan Rathjens , Laurenz Wiskott

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have revolutionized computer vision and are often advocated as good models of the human visual system. However, there are currently many shortcomings of DCNNs, which preclude them as a model of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Harshitha Machiraju , Oh-Hyeon Choung , Michael H. Herzog , Pascal Frossard

Predictive coding is an influential model of cortical neural activity. It proposes that perceptual beliefs are furnished by sequentially minimising "prediction errors" - the differences between predicted and observed data. Implicit in this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-07 Alexander Tschantz , Beren Millidge , Anil K Seth , Christopher L Buckley

Designing composite materials as per the application requirements is fundamentally a challenging and time consuming task. Here we report the development of a deep neural network based computational framework capable of solving the forward…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-14 Ashank , Soumen Chakravarty , Pranshu Garg , Ankit Kumar , Manish Agrawal , Prabhat K. Agnihotri

Recurrent neural nets are widely used for predicting temporal data. Their inherent deep feedforward structure allows learning complex sequential patterns. It is believed that top-down feedback might be an important missing ingredient which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Kamil M Rocki

Computational models of vision have traditionally been developed in a bottom-up fashion, by hierarchically composing a series of straightforward operations - i.e. convolution and pooling - with the aim of emulating simple and complex cells…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Simone Azeglio , Simone Poetto , Luca Savant Aira , Marco Nurisso

While great strides have been made in using deep learning algorithms to solve supervised learning tasks, the problem of unsupervised learning - leveraging unlabeled examples to learn about the structure of a domain - remains a difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-02 William Lotter , Gabriel Kreiman , David Cox

While deep neural networks take loose inspiration from neuroscience, it is an open question how seriously to take the analogies between artificial deep networks and biological neuronal systems. Interestingly, recent work has shown that deep…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-31 William Lotter , Gabriel Kreiman , David Cox

Modeling uncertainty in deep neural networks, despite recent important advances, is still an open problem. Bayesian neural networks are a powerful solution, where the prior over network weights is a design choice, often a normal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-29 Raanan Y. Rohekar , Yaniv Gurwicz , Shami Nisimov , Gal Novik

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Tommaso Salvatori , Ankur Mali , Christopher L. Buckley , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rajesh P. N. Rao , Karl Friston , Alexander Ororbia

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

Predictive monitoring of business processes is a subfield of process mining that aims to predict, among other things, the characteristics of the next event or the sequence of next events. Although multiple approaches based on deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Efrén Rama-Maneiro , Juan C. Vidal , Manuel Lama