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We propose a new class of implicit networks, the multiscale deep equilibrium model (MDEQ), suited to large-scale and highly hierarchical pattern recognition domains. An MDEQ directly solves for and backpropagates through the equilibrium…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Shaojie Bai , Vladlen Koltun , J. Zico Kolter

Machine learning force fields show great promise in enabling more accurate molecular dynamics simulations compared to manually derived ones. Much of the progress in recent years was driven by exploiting prior knowledge about physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Andreas Burger , Luca Thiede , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Nandita Vijaykumar

Deep equilibrium networks (DEQs) are a promising way to construct models which trade off memory for compute. However, theoretical understanding of these models is still lacking compared to traditional networks, in part because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Atish Agarwala , Samuel S. Schoenholz

While backpropagation--reverse-mode automatic differentiation--has been extraordinarily successful in deep learning, it requires two passes (forward and backward) through the neural network and the storage of intermediate activations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Daniel Wang , Evan Markou , Dylan Campbell

A deep equilibrium model uses implicit layers, which are implicitly defined through an equilibrium point of an infinite sequence of computation. It avoids any explicit computation of the infinite sequence by finding an equilibrium point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Kenji Kawaguchi

Deep-predictive-coding networks (DPCNs) are hierarchical, generative models. They rely on feed-forward and feed-back connections to modulate latent feature representations of stimuli in a dynamic and context-sensitive manner. A crucial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Isaac J. Sledge , Jose C. Principe

Implicit models such as Deep Equilibrium Models (DEQs) have garnered significant attention in the community for their ability to train infinite layer models with elegant solution-finding procedures and constant memory footprint. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Haobo Song , Soumajit Majumder , Tao Lin

Learning expressive probabilistic models correctly describing the data is a ubiquitous problem in machine learning. A popular approach for solving it is mapping the observations into a representation space with a simple joint distribution,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-28 Luigi Gresele , Giancarlo Fissore , Adrián Javaloy , Bernhard Schölkopf , Aapo Hyvärinen

Deep equilibrium models (DEQs) have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for training infinitely deep weight-tied neural networks that achieve state of the art performance across many modern machine learning tasks. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sanjit Dandapanthula , Aaditya Ramdas

Implicit deep learning has recently gained popularity with applications ranging from meta-learning to Deep Equilibrium Networks (DEQs). In its general formulation, it relies on expressing some components of deep learning pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zaccharie Ramzi , Pierre Ablin , Gabriel Peyré , Thomas Moreau

Deep equilibrium (DEQ) models replace the multiple-layer stacking of conventional deep networks with a fixed-point iteration of a single-layer transformation. Having been demonstrated to be competitive in a variety of real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Zonghan Yang , Peng Li , Tianyu Pang , Yang Liu

We introduce Equilibrium Propagation, a learning framework for energy-based models. It involves only one kind of neural computation, performed in both the first phase (when the prediction is made) and the second phase of training (after the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Benjamin Scellier , Yoshua Bengio

The feasibility of variational quantum algorithms, the most popular correspondent of neural networks on noisy, near-term quantum hardware, is highly impacted by the circuit depth of the involved parametrized quantum circuits (PQCs). Higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Philipp Schleich , Marta Skreta , Lasse B. Kristensen , Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Neural networks with wide layers have attracted significant attention due to their equivalence to Gaussian processes, enabling perfect fitting of training data while maintaining generalization performance, known as benign overfitting.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Tianxiang Gao , Xiaokai Huo , Hailiang Liu , Hongyang Gao

Data-driven decision-making processes increasingly utilize end-to-end learnable deep neural networks to render final decisions. Sometimes, the output of the forward functions in certain layers is determined by the solutions to mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jianming Pan , Zeqi Ye , Xiao Yang , Xu Yang , Weiqing Liu , Lewen Wang , Jiang Bian

Bilevel optimization offers a methodology to learn hyperparameters in imaging inverse problems, yet its integration with automatic differentiation techniques remains challenging. On the one hand, inverse problems are typically solved by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Leo Davy , Luis M. Briceno-Arias , N. Pustelnik

This paper focuses on training implicit models of infinite layers. Specifically, previous works employ implicit differentiation and solve the exact gradient for the backward propagation. However, is it necessary to compute such an exact but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhengyang Geng , Xin-Yu Zhang , Shaojie Bai , Yisen Wang , Zhouchen Lin

We address the challenging problem of deep representation learning--the efficient adaption of a pre-trained deep network to different tasks. Specifically, we propose to explore gradient-based features. These features are gradients of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Fangzhou Mu , Yingyu Liang , Yin Li

The ability of snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) systems to efficiently capture high-dimensional (HD) data has led to an inverse problem, which consists of recovering the HD signal from the compressed and noisy measurement. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Yaping Zhao , Siming Zheng , Xin Yuan

The backpropagation algorithm remains the dominant and most successful method for training deep neural networks (DNNs). At the same time, training DNNs at scale comes at a significant computational cost and therefore a high carbon…

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