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Synaptic plasticity is metabolically expensive, yet animals continuously update their internal models without exhausting energy reserves. However, when artificial neural networks are trained, the network parameters are typically updated on…

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Humans excel at continually acquiring, consolidating, and retaining information from an ever-changing environment, whereas artificial neural networks (ANNs) exhibit catastrophic forgetting. There are considerable differences in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Sequential learning of multiple tasks in artificial neural networks using gradient descent leads to catastrophic forgetting, whereby previously learned knowledge is erased during learning of new, disjoint knowledge. Here, we propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Shixian Wen , Laurent Itti

Differentiable physical networks provide a simple setting in which learning can be studied through the interaction between trainable parameters and physical equilibrium constraints. We investigate sequential learning in differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maniru Ibrahim

Continual learning models allow to learn and adapt to new changes and tasks over time. However, in continual and sequential learning scenarios in which the models are trained using different data with various distributions, neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-17 HongLin Li , Payam Barnaghi , Shirin Enshaeifar , Frieder Ganz

Recently, research has increasingly focused on developing efficient neural network architectures. In this work, we explore logic gate networks for machine learning tasks by learning combinations of logic gates. These networks comprise logic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Felix Petersen , Christian Borgelt , Hilde Kuehne , Oliver Deussen

Lifelong learning capabilities are crucial for artificial autonomous agents operating on real-world data, which is typically non-stationary and temporally correlated. In this work, we demonstrate that dynamically grown networks outperform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-03 German I. Parisi , Xu Ji , Stefan Wermter

Successful recurrent models such as long short-term memories (LSTMs) and gated recurrent units (GRUs) use ad hoc gating mechanisms. Empirically these models have been found to improve the learning of medium to long term temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Corentin Tallec , Yann Ollivier

Neural networks are susceptible to catastrophic forgetting. They fail to preserve previously acquired knowledge when adapting to new tasks. Inspired by human associative memory system, we propose a brain-like approach that imitates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Yi Gu , Jie Li , Yuting Gao , Ruoxin Chen , Chentao Wu , Feiyang Cai , Chao Wang , Zirui Zhang

Recurrent neural networks with a gating mechanism such as an LSTM or GRU are powerful tools to model sequential data. In the mechanism, a forget gate, which was introduced to control information flow in a hidden state in the RNN, has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-08 Kentaro Ohno , Atsutoshi Kumagai

Learning and memory are intertwined in our brain and their relationship is at the core of several recent neural network models. In particular, the Attention-Gated MEmory Tagging model (AuGMEnT) is a reinforcement learning network with an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-19 Marco Martinolli , Wulfram Gerstner , Aditya Gilra

Artificial neural networks are well-known to be susceptible to catastrophic forgetting when continually learning from sequences of tasks. Various continual (or "incremental") learning approaches have been proposed to avoid catastrophic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Muhammad Umer , Glenn Dawson , Robi Polikar

Gating mechanisms are widely used in neural network models, where they allow gradients to backpropagate more easily through depth or time. However, their saturation property introduces problems of its own. For example, in recurrent models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Albert Gu , Caglar Gulcehre , Tom Le Paine , Matt Hoffman , Razvan Pascanu

We show that gating mechanisms in recurrent neural networks (RNNs) induce lag-dependent and direction-dependent effective learning rates, even when training uses a fixed, global step size. This behavior arises from a coupling between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Lorenzo Livi

The field of artificial intelligence faces significant challenges in achieving both biological plausibility and computational efficiency, particularly in visual learning tasks. Current artificial neural networks, such as convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacobo Ruiz , Manas Gupta

Humans can learn several tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference but perform more poorly when trained on multiple tasks at once. The opposite is true for standard deep neural networks. Here, we propose novel computational…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-07 Timo Flesch , David G. Nagy , Andrew Saxe , Christopher Summerfield

Humans learn multiple tasks in succession with minimal mutual interference, through the context gating mechanism in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). The brain-inspired models of spiking neural networks (SNN) have drawn massive attention for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiangrong Shen , Wenyao Ni , Qi Xu , Gang Pan , Huajin Tang

Humans sometimes have an insight that leads to a sudden and drastic performance improvement on the task they are working on. Sudden strategy adaptations are often linked to insights, considered to be a unique aspect of human cognition tied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Anika T. Löwe , Léo Touzo , Paul S. Muhle-Karbe , Andrew M. Saxe , Christopher Summerfield , Nicolas W. Schuck

Distantly supervised relation extraction intrinsically suffers from noisy labels due to the strong assumption of distant supervision. Most prior works adopt a selective attention mechanism over sentences in a bag to denoise from wrongly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yang Li , Guodong Long , Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Lina Yao , Huan Huo , Jing Jiang

Deep artificial neural networks have surpassed human-level performance across a diverse array of complex learning tasks, establishing themselves as indispensable tools in both social applications and scientific research. Despite these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-03 Chuanbo Liu , Jin Wang