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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

A Deep Neural Network (DNN) is a composite function of vector-valued functions, and in order to train a DNN, it is necessary to calculate the gradient of the loss function with respect to all parameters. This calculation can be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Saeed Damadi , Golnaz Moharrer , Mostafa Cham

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

By and large, Backpropagation (BP) is regarded as one of the most important neural computation algorithms at the basis of the progress in machine learning, including the recent advances in deep learning. However, its computational structure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Alessandro Betti , Marco Gori , Giuseppe Marra

Deep learning has redefined the field of artificial intelligence (AI) thanks to the rise of artificial neural networks, which are architectures inspired by their neurological counterpart in the brain. Through the years, this dualism between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rafal Bogacz , Zhenghua Xu

Backpropagation (BP) remains the dominant and most successful method for training parameters of deep neural network models. However, BP relies on two computationally distinct phases, does not provide a satisfactory explanation of biological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sander Dalm , Marcel van Gerven , Nasir Ahmad

The backpropagation of error algorithm (BP) is impossible to implement in a real brain. The recent success of deep networks in machine learning and AI, however, has inspired proposals for understanding how the brain might learn across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Sergey Bartunov , Adam Santoro , Blake A. Richards , Luke Marris , Geoffrey E. Hinton , Timothy Lillicrap

Integrated photonic neural networks (PNNs) have demonstrated significant potential to complement the digital electronic counterparts [1-3]. Nevertheless, robust and repeatable performance of scalable integrated PNNs is directly tied to the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-18 Farshid Ashtiani , Mohamad Hossein Idjadi , Kwangwoong Kim

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

Back-propagation (BP) is widely used learning algorithm for neural network optimization. However, BP requires enormous computation cost and is too slow to train in central processing unit (CPU). Therefore current neural network optimizaiton…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ryoungwoo Jang

Backpropagation (BP) has been pivotal in advancing machine learning and remains essential in computational applications and comparative studies of biological and artificial neural networks. Despite its widespread use, the implementation of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-15 Xinhao Fan , Shreesh P Mysore

Backpropagation algorithm is indispensable for the training of feedforward neural networks. It requires propagating error gradients sequentially from the output layer all the way back to the input layer. The backward locking in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Zhouyuan Huo , Bin Gu , Qian Yang , Heng Huang

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

The artificial neural network is a popular framework in machine learning. To empower individual neurons, we recently suggested that the current type of neurons could be upgraded to 2nd order counterparts, in which the linear operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Fenglei Fan , Wenxiang Cong , Ge Wang

Backpropagation (BP) is the most successful and widely used algorithm in deep learning. However, the computations required by BP are challenging to reconcile with known neurobiology. This difficulty has stimulated interest in more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Nick Alonso , Beren Millidge , Jeff Krichmar , Emre Neftci

Deep Learning's outstanding track record across several domains has stemmed from the use of error backpropagation (BP). Several studies, however, have shown that it is impossible to execute BP in a real brain. Also, BP still serves as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Swaroop Mishra , Anjana Arunkumar

Backpropagation algorithm is the cornerstone for neural network analysis. Paper extends it for training any derivatives of neural network's output with respect to its input. By the dint of it feedforward networks can be used to solve or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-13 V. I. Avrutskiy

Deep neural network architectures have recently produced excellent results in a variety of areas in artificial intelligence and visual recognition, well surpassing traditional shallow architectures trained using hand-designed features. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Catalin Ionescu , Orestis Vantzos , Cristian Sminchisescu

Backpropagation (BP) of errors is the backbone training algorithm for artificial neural networks (ANNs). It updates network weights through gradient descent to minimize a loss function representing the mismatch between predictions and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-13 Davide Casnici , Charlotte Frenkel , Justin Dauwels

Predictive coding networks (PCNs) are an influential model for information processing in the brain. They have appealing theoretical interpretations and offer a single mechanism that accounts for diverse perceptual phenomena of the brain. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rafal Bogacz , Zhenghua Xu
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