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Ongoing studies have identified similarities between neural representations in biological networks and in deep artificial neural networks. This has led to renewed interest in developing analogies between the backpropagation learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Theodore H. Moskovitz , Ashok Litwin-Kumar , L. F. Abbott

Deep learning has seen remarkable developments over the last years, many of them inspired by neuroscience. However, the main learning mechanism behind these advances - error backpropagation - appears to be at odds with neurobiology. Here,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-29 João Sacramento , Rui Ponte Costa , Yoshua Bengio , Walter Senn

Despite the widespread adoption of Backpropagation algorithm-based Deep Neural Networks, the biological infeasibility of the BP algorithm could potentially limit the evolution of new DNN models. To find a biologically plausible algorithm to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jian-Hui Chen , Cheng-Lin Liu , Zuoren Wang

Synaptic plasticity is widely accepted to be the mechanism behind learning in the brain's neural networks. A central question is how synapses, with access to only local information about the network, can still organize collectively and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Dina Obeid , Hugo Ramambason , Cengiz Pehlevan

We present differentiable predictive control (DPC), a method for learning constrained neural control policies for linear systems with probabilistic performance guarantees. We employ automatic differentiation to obtain direct policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Jan Drgona , Aaron Tuor , Draguna Vrabie

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) are commonly used for image classification tasks, raising the challenge of their application on data flows. During their training, adaptation is often performed by tuning the learning rate. Usual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Zilong Zhao , Sophie Cerf , Bogdan Robu , Nicolas Marchand

Training a deep convolutional neural net typically starts with a random initialisation of all filters in all layers which severely reduces the forward signal and back-propagated error and leads to slow and sub-optimal training. Techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Brendan Ruff

We present a new neuroadaptive architecture: Deep Neural Network based Model Reference Adaptive Control (DMRAC). Our architecture utilizes the power of deep neural network representations for modeling significant nonlinearities while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Girish Joshi , Girish Chowdhary

Motor skill acquisition in fields like surgery, robotics, and sports involves learning complex task sequences through extensive training. Traditional performance metrics, like execution time and error rates, offer limited insight as they…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-21 Anil Kamat , Rahul Rahul , Lora Cavuoto , Harry Burke , Matthew Hackett , Jack Norfleet , Steven Schwaitzberg , Suvranu De

One major criticism of deep learning centers around the biological implausibility of the credit assignment schema used for learning -- backpropagation of errors. This implausibility translates into practical limitations, spanning scientific…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Alexander Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Adam Kohan , Beren Millidge , Tommaso Salvatori

Deep Reservoir Computing has emerged as a new paradigm for deep learning, which is based around the reservoir computing principle of maintaining random pools of neurons combined with hierarchical deep learning. The reservoir paradigm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Matthew Evanusa , Cornelia Fermüller , Yiannis Aloimonos

In the quest to model neuronal function amidst gaps in physiological data, a promising strategy is to develop a normative theory that interprets neuronal physiology as optimizing a computational objective. This study extends the current…

Credit assignment--how changes in individual neurons and synapses affect a network's output--is central to learning in brains and machines. Noise correlation, which estimates gradients by correlating perturbations of activity with changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Byungwoo Kang , Maceo Richards , Bernardo Sabatini

Model predictive Path-Following Control (MPFC) is a viable option for motion systems in many application domains. However, despite considerable progress on tailored numerical methods for predictive control, the real-time implementation of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-30 Pablo Zometa , Timm Faulwasser

Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA) is emerging as an efficient and biologically plausible alternative to the ubiquitous backpropagation algorithm for training deep neural networks. Despite relying on random feedback weights for the backward…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-11 Maria Refinetti , Stéphane d'Ascoli , Ruben Ohana , Sebastian Goldt

We propose a novel training method that integrates rules into deep learning, in a way the strengths of the rules are controllable at inference. Deep Neural Networks with Controllable Rule Representations (DeepCTRL) incorporates a rule…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Sungyong Seo , Sercan O. Arik , Jinsung Yoon , Xiang Zhang , Kihyuk Sohn , Tomas Pfister

Deep Model Predictive Control (Deep MPC) is an evolving field that integrates model predictive control and deep learning. This manuscript is focused on a particular approach, which employs deep neural network in the loop with MPC. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Prabhat K. Mishra , Mateus V. Gasparino , Girish Chowdhary

Oftentimes, environments for sequential decision-making problems can be quite sparse in the provision of evaluative feedback to guide reinforcement-learning agents. In the extreme case, long trajectories of behavior are merely punctuated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Akash Velu , Skanda Vaidyanath , Dilip Arumugam

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) with backpropagation (BP) achieves state-of-the-art accuracy but requires global error propagation and full parameterization, leading to substantial memory and computational overhead. Direct Feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Arani Roy , Marco P. Apolinario , Shristi Das Biswas , Kaushik Roy