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Continual learning is a key feature of biological neural systems, but artificial neural networks often suffer from catastrophic forgetting. Instead of backpropagation, biologically plausible learning algorithms may enable stable continual…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Denis Larionov , Nikolay Bazenkov , Mikhail Kiselev

Deep neural networks are capable of modelling highly non-linear functions by capturing different levels of abstraction of data hierarchically. While training deep networks, first the system is initialized near a good optimum by greedy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Anirban Santara , Debapriya Maji , DP Tejas , Pabitra Mitra , Arobinda Gupta

Error backpropagation is a highly effective mechanism for learning high-quality hierarchical features in deep networks. Updating the features or weights in one layer, however, requires waiting for the propagation of error signals from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Hesham Mostafa , Vishwajith Ramesh , Gert Cauwenberghs

Unsupervised learning methods have a soft inspiration in cognition models. To this day, the most successful unsupervised learning methods revolve around clustering samples in a mathematical space. In this paper we propose a primitive-based,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Alfredo Ibias , Hector Antona , Guillem Ramirez-Miranda , Enric Guinovart , Eduard Alarcon

Continual learning aims to improve the ability of modern learning systems to deal with non-stationary distributions, typically by attempting to learn a series of tasks sequentially. Prior art in the field has largely considered supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Dushyant Rao , Francesco Visin , Andrei A. Rusu , Yee Whye Teh , Razvan Pascanu , Raia Hadsell

We propose a novel method to explain trained deep neural networks (DNNs), by distilling them into surrogate models using unsupervised clustering. Our method can be applied flexibly to any subset of layers of a DNN architecture and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yu-han Liu , Sercan O. Arik

We propose that the Continual Learning desiderata can be achieved through a neuro-inspired architecture, grounded on Mountcastle's cortical column hypothesis. The proposed architecture involves a single module, called Self-Taught…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Constantine Dovrolis

Self-supervised learning (SSL) plays a central role in molecular representation learning. Yet, many recent innovations in masking-based pretraining are introduced as heuristics and lack principled evaluation, obscuring which design choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiannan Yang , Veronika Thost , Tengfei Ma

This work combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), clustering via Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) and Hebbian Learning to propose the building blocks of Convolutional Self-Organizing Neural Networks (CSNNs), which learn representations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Bonifaz Stuhr , Jürgen Brauer

State-of-the-art deep learning models are often trained with a large amount of costly labeled training data. However, requiring exhaustive manual annotations may degrade the model's generalizability in the limited-label regime.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yanbei Chen , Massimiliano Mancini , Xiatian Zhu , Zeynep Akata

Data clustering, the task of grouping observations according to their similarity, is a key component of unsupervised learning -- with real world applications in diverse fields such as biology, medicine, and social science. Often in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Anne Sophie Riis Damstrup , Sofie Tosti Madsen , Michele Coscia

We propose a novel approach to unsupervised learning by constructing a non-linear embedding of the data into a low-dimensional space followed by any conventional clustering algorithm. The embedding promotes clusterability of the data and is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Malihehsadat Chavooshi , Alexander V. Mamonov

In this paper, we focus on unsupervised representation learning for clustering of images. Recent advances in deep clustering and unsupervised representation learning are based on the idea that different views of an input image (generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aniket Anand Deshmukh , Jayanth Reddy Regatti , Eren Manavoglu , Urun Dogan

In real world scenarios, objects are often partially occluded. This requires a robustness for object recognition against these perturbations. Convolutional networks have shown good performances in classification tasks. The learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 René Larisch , Michael Teichmann , Fred H. Hamker

Training deep neural networks with the error backpropagation algorithm is considered implausible from a biological perspective. Numerous recent publications suggest elaborate models for biologically plausible variants of deep learning,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Bernd Illing , Wulfram Gerstner , Johanni Brea

In this work we used unsupervised machine learning methods in order to find possible clustering structures in superconducting materials data sets. We used the SuperCon database, as well as our own data sets complied from literature, in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-07-13 B. Roter , N. Ninkovic , S. V. Dordevic

We develop biologically plausible training mechanisms for self-supervised learning (SSL) in deep networks. Specifically, by biological plausible training we mean (i) All updates of weights are based on current activities of pre-synaptic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Mufeng Tang , Yibo Yang , Yali Amit

We combine supervised learning with unsupervised learning in deep neural networks. The proposed model is trained to simultaneously minimize the sum of supervised and unsupervised cost functions by backpropagation, avoiding the need for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Antti Rasmus , Harri Valpola , Mikko Honkala , Mathias Berglund , Tapani Raiko

In this paper, we propose a recurrent framework for Joint Unsupervised LEarning (JULE) of deep representations and image clusters. In our framework, successive operations in a clustering algorithm are expressed as steps in a recurrent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Jianwei Yang , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Deep neural networks are powerful, massively parameterized machine learning models that have been shown to perform well in supervised learning tasks. However, very large amounts of labeled data are usually needed to train deep neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Hanchen Xie , Mohamed E. Hussein , Aram Galstyan , Wael Abd-Almageed