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The modern image search system requires semantic understanding of image, and a key yet under-addressed problem is to learn a good metric for measuring the similarity between images. While deep metric learning has yielded impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Jian Wang , Feng Zhou , Shilei Wen , Xiao Liu , Yuanqing Lin

Backpropagation is the pivotal algorithm underpinning the success of artificial neural networks, yet it has critical limitations such as biologically implausible backward locking and global error propagation. To circumvent these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 James Gong , Raymond Luo , Emma Wang , Leon Ge , Bruce Li , Felix Marattukalam , Waleed Abdulla

Backpropagation is the default algorithm for training deep neural networks due to its simplicity, efficiency and high convergence rate. However, its requirements make it impossible to be implemented in a human brain. In recent years, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Albert Jiménez Sanfiz , Mohamed Akrout

Function regression/approximation is a fundamental application of machine learning. Neural networks (NNs) can be easily trained for function regression using a sufficient number of neurons and epochs. The forward-forward learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shivam Padmani , Akshay Joshi

The backpropagation algorithm, which had been originally introduced in the 1970s, is the workhorse of learning in neural networks. This backpropagation algorithm makes use of the famous machine learning algorithm known as Gradient Descent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Varun Ranganathan , S. Natarajan

In this note we prove that the version of Newton algorithm with line search we used in [2] converges quadratically.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Denis Zorin

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 classical convergence analysis of SGD is carried out under the assumption that the norm of the stochastic gradient is uniformly bounded. While this might hold for some loss functions, it is violated for cases where the objective…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Lam M. Nguyen , Phuong Ha Nguyen , Peter Richtárik , Katya Scheinberg , Martin Takáč , Marten van Dijk

Neural networks are typically trained with a single learning rate across all layers. While recent empirical evidence suggests that assigning layer-specific learning rates can accelerate training, a principled understanding of the conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sihan Zeng , Sujay Bhatt , Sumitra Ganesh

The existing machine learning algorithms for minimizing the convex function over a closed convex set suffer from slow convergence because their learning rates must be determined before running them. This paper proposes two machine learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Kazuhiro Hishinuma , Hideaki Iiduka

We propose a new regression algorithm that learns from a set of input-output pairs. Our algorithm is designed for populations where the relation between the input variables and the output variable exhibits a heterogeneous behavior across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ş. İlker Birbil , Sinan Yıldırım , Samet Çopur , M. Hakan Akyüz

Adapting pre-trained neural models to downstream tasks has become the standard practice for obtaining high-quality models. In this work, we propose a novel model adaptation paradigm, adapting by pruning, which prunes neural connections in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Yang Gao , Nicolo Colombo , Wei Wang

Incorporating novelties into deep learning systems remains a challenging problem. Introducing new information to a machine learning system can interfere with previously stored data and potentially alter the global model paradigm, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Alessandro Londei , Matteo Benati , Denise Lanzieri , Vittorio Loreto

Artificial neural networks are most commonly trained with the back-propagation algorithm, where the gradient for learning is provided by back-propagating the error, layer by layer, from the output layer to the hidden layers. A recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Arild Nøkland

We study the sample complexity of learning one-hidden-layer convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with non-overlapping filters. We propose a novel algorithm called approximate gradient descent for training CNNs, and show that, with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yuan Cao , Quanquan Gu

Interest in biologically inspired alternatives to backpropagation is driven by the desire to both advance connections between deep learning and neuroscience and address backpropagation's shortcomings on tasks such as online, continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Jack Lindsey , Ashok Litwin-Kumar

The nudging data assimilation algorithm is a powerful tool used to forecast phenomena of interest given incomplete and noisy observations. Machine learning is becoming increasingly popular in data assimilation given its ease of computation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Harbir Antil , Rainald Löhner , Randy Price

A machine learning model is calibrated if its predicted probability for an outcome matches the observed frequency for that outcome conditional on the model prediction. This property has become increasingly important as the impact of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Muthu Chidambaram , Rong Ge

Learning and the ability to learn are important factors in development and evolutionary processes [1]. Depending on the level, the complexity of learning can strongly vary. While associative learning can explain simple learning behaviour…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Reimer Kuehn , Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu

In this paper, a progressive learning technique for multi-class classification is proposed. This newly developed learning technique is independent of the number of class constraints and it can learn new classes while still retaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Rajasekar Venkatesan , Meng Joo Er