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We introduce Progressive Prompts - a simple and efficient approach for continual learning in language models. Our method allows forward transfer and resists catastrophic forgetting, without relying on data replay or a large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Anastasia Razdaibiedina , Yuning Mao , Rui Hou , Madian Khabsa , Mike Lewis , Amjad Almahairi

We propose Quick Feedforward (QF) Learning, a novel knowledge consolidation framework for transformer-based models that enables efficient transfer of instruction derived knowledge into model weights through feedforward activations without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Feng Qi

Error backpropagation is an extremely effective algorithm for assigning credit in artificial neural networks. However, weight updates under Backprop depend on lengthy recursive computations and require separate output and error messages --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-25 David Balduzzi , Hastagiri Vanchinathan , Joachim Buhmann

Supervised learning in deep neural networks is commonly performed using error backpropagation. However, the sequential propagation of errors during the backward pass limits its scalability and applicability to low-powered neuromorphic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Florian Bacho , Dominique Chu

It is crucial to ask how agents can achieve goals by generating action plans using only partial models of the world acquired through habituated sensory-motor experiences. Although many existing robotics studies use a forward model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Takazumi Matsumoto , Jun Tani

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been extraordinarily successful for prediction with sequential data. To tackle highly variable and noisy real-world data, we introduce Particle Filter Recurrent Neural Networks (PF-RNNs), a new RNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Xiao Ma , Peter Karkus , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee

This paper proposes an alternating back-propagation algorithm for learning the generator network model. The model is a non-linear generalization of factor analysis. In this model, the mapping from the continuous latent factors to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-07 Tian Han , Yang Lu , Song-Chun Zhu , Ying Nian Wu

Discrete diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models with strong performance across many domains. For efficiency, however, discrete diffusion typically parameterizes the generative (reverse) process with factorized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-19 Grigory Bartosh , Teodora Pandeva , Sushrut Karmalkar , Javier Zazo

This research is to search for alternatives to the resolution of complex medical diagnosis where human knowledge should be apprehended in a general fashion. Successful application examples show that human diagnostic capabilities are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Abu Bakar Siddiquee , Md. Ehsanul Hoque Mazumder , S. M. Kamruzzaman

We combine concept-based neural networks with generative, flow-based classifiers into a novel, intrinsically explainable, exactly invertible approach to supervised learning. Prototypical neural networks, a type of concept-based neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Zachariah Carmichael , Timothy Redgrave , Daniel Gonzalez Cedre , Walter J. Scheirer

Catastrophic forgetting has been a major challenge in continual learning, where the model needs to learn new tasks with limited or no access to data from previously seen tasks. To tackle this challenge, methods based on knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Qiao Gu , Dongsub Shim , Florian Shkurti

The most popular technique to train a neural network is backpropagation. Recently, the Forward-Forward technique has also been introduced for certain learning tasks. However, in real life, human learning does not follow any of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Prasun Dutta , Koustab Ghosh , Rajat K. De

Humans and animals show remarkable flexibility in adjusting their behaviour when their goals, or rewards in the environment change. While such flexibility is a hallmark of intelligent behaviour, these multi-task scenarios remain an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Tamas J. Madarasz

Predictive coding (PC) is a brain-inspired local learning algorithm that has recently been suggested to provide advantages over backpropagation (BP) in biologically relevant scenarios. While theoretical work has mainly focused on showing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Francesco Innocenti , Ryan Singh , Christopher L. Buckley

Recurrent neural networks are nowadays successfully used in an abundance of applications, going from text, speech and image processing to recommender systems. Backpropagation through time is the algorithm that is commonly used to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Cedric De Boom , Thomas Demeester , Bart Dhoedt

Deep learning models have been widely used during the last decade due to their outstanding learning and abstraction capacities. However, one of the main challenges any scientist has to face using deep learning models is to establish the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

In most real-world applications of artificial intelligence, the distributions of the data and the goals of the learners tend to change over time. The Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) learning framework, which underpins most machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuxin Bai , Cecelia Shuai , Ashwin De Silva , Siyu Yu , Pratik Chaudhari , Joshua T. Vogelstein

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

Models of sensory processing and learning in the cortex need to efficiently assign credit to synapses in all areas. In deep learning, a known solution is error backpropagation, which however requires biologically implausible weight…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-05 Kevin Max , Laura Kriener , Garibaldi Pineda García , Thomas Nowotny , Ismael Jaras , Walter Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is widely used in recommender systems to model user-item interactions. With the great success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in various fields, advanced works recently have proposed several DNN-based models for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuhan Fang , Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun