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Solving the synaptic Credit Assignment Problem(CAP) is central to learning in both biological and artificial neural systems. Finding an optimal solution for synaptic CAP means setting the synaptic weights that assign credit to each neuron…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Saranraj Nambusubramaniyan , Shervin Safavi , Raja Guru , Andreas Knoblauch

This paper explores the connection between learning trajectories of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their generalization capabilities when optimized using (stochastic) gradient descent algorithms. Instead of concentrating solely on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jingwen Fu , Zhizheng Zhang , Dacheng Yin , Yan Lu , Nanning Zheng

Artificial Neural Networks are connectionist systems that perform a given task by learning on examples without having prior knowledge about the task. This is done by finding an optimal point estimate for the weights in every node.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Kumar Shridhar , Felix Laumann , Marcus Liwicki

Backpropagation (BP) is widely used for calculating gradients in deep neural networks (DNNs). Applied often along with stochastic gradient descent (SGD) or its variants, BP is considered as a de-facto choice in a variety of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ziang Li , Yiwen Guo , Haodi Liu , Changshui Zhang

Backpropagation (BP) has long been the predominant method for training neural networks due to its effectiveness. However, numerous alternative approaches, broadly categorized under feedback alignment, have been proposed, many of which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aymene Berriche , Mehdi Zakaria Adjal , Riyadh Baghdadi

The Error Diffusion Learning Algorithm (EDLA) is a learning scheme that performs synaptically local weight updates driven by a single, globally defined error signal. Although originally proposed as an alternative to backpropagation, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kazuhisa Fujita

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a high accuracy on image classification tasks. However, DNNs trained by such dataset with co-occurrence bias may rely on wrong features while making decisions for classification. It will greatly affect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Xi Yang , Bojian Wu , Issei Sato , Takeo Igarashi

We propose an inference procedure for deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when partial evidence is available. Our method consists of a general feedback-based propagation approach (feedback-prop) that boosts the prediction accuracy for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Tianlu Wang , Kota Yamaguchi , Vicente Ordonez

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are considered the state-of-the-art in many classification tasks, the question of their semantic generalizations has been raised. To address semantic interpretability of learned features, we introduce a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Shideh Rezaeifar , Olga Taran , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Biological neural networks learn complex behaviors from sparse, delayed feedback using local synaptic plasticity, yet the mechanisms enabling structured credit assignment remain elusive. In contrast, artificial recurrent networks solving…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-12 Dimitra Maoutsa

Standard deep neural networks (DNNs) are commonly trained in an end-to-end fashion for specific tasks such as object recognition, face identification, or character recognition, among many examples. This specificity often leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Raphaël Achddou , J. Matias di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro

End-to-End (E2E) learning-based concept has been recently introduced to jointly optimize both the transmitter and the receiver in wireless communication systems. Unfortunately, this E2E learning architecture requires a prior differentiable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Bolun Zhang , Nguyen Van Huynh

Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved excellent results on various tasks on increasingly large graph datasets with millions of nodes and edges. However, memory complexity has become a major obstacle when training deep GNNs for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Guohao Li , Matthias Müller , Bernard Ghanem , Vladlen Koltun

We propose the predictive forward-forward (PFF) algorithm for conducting credit assignment in neural systems. Specifically, we design a novel, dynamic recurrent neural system that learns a directed generative circuit jointly and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers, which are composed of multiple processing layers and blocks to learn the representations of data with multiple abstract levels, are the most successful machine learning models in recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Biyi Fang , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) enforces supervised information only at the output layer, and hidden layers are trained by back propagating the prediction error from the output layer without explicit supervision. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Zhuolin Jiang , Yaming Wang , Larry Davis , Walt Andrews , Viktor Rozgic

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are naturally distributed architectures for learning representations from network data. This renders them suitable candidates for decentralized tasks. In these scenarios, the underlying graph often changes with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Zhan Gao , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

In this paper, we aim at establishing an approximation theory and a learning theory of distribution regression via a fully connected neural network (FNN). In contrast to the classical regression methods, the input variables of distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-10 Zhongjie Shi , Zhan Yu , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Peer-to-peer learning is an increasingly popular framework that enables beyond-5G distributed edge devices to collaboratively train deep neural networks in a privacy-preserving manner without the aid of a central server. Neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Shreyas Chaudhari , Srinivasa Pranav , Emile Anand , José M. F. Moura

Deep neural networks (DNNs) at convergence consistently represent the training data in the last layer via a highly symmetric geometric structure referred to as neural collapse. This empirical evidence has spurred a line of theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Arthur Jacot , Peter Súkeník , Zihan Wang , Marco Mondelli