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We consider artificial neurons which will update their weight coefficients with an internal rule based on backpropagation, rather than using it as an external training procedure. To achieve this we include the backpropagation error estimate…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. N. Nazarov

Backpropagation, a foundational algorithm for training artificial neural networks, predominates in contemporary deep learning. Although highly successful, it is widely considered biologically implausible, because it relies on precise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Li Ji-An , Marcus K. Benna

Random backpropagation (RBP) is a variant of the backpropagation algorithm for training neural networks, where the transpose of the forward matrices are replaced by fixed random matrices in the calculation of the weight updates. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Pierre Baldi , Peter Sadowski , Zhiqin Lu

Significant success has been reported recently using deep neural networks for classification. Such large networks can be computationally intensive, even after training is over. Implementing these trained networks in hardware chips with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-25 Daniel Soudry , Ron Meir

The back-propagation algorithm is the cornerstone of deep learning. Despite its importance, few variations of the algorithm have been attempted. This work presents an approach to discover new variations of the back-propagation equation. We…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Maximilian Alber , Irwan Bello , Barret Zoph , Pieter-Jan Kindermans , Prajit Ramachandran , Quoc Le

How can neural networks be trained on large-volume temporal data efficiently? To compute the gradients required to update parameters, backpropagation blocks computations until the forward and backward passes are completed. For temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mateusz Malinowski , Dimitrios Vytiniotis , Grzegorz Swirszcz , Viorica Patraucean , Joao Carreira

Supervised learning in artificial neural networks typically relies on backpropagation, where the weights are updated based on the error-function gradients and sequentially propagated from the output layer to the input layer. Although this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Giorgia Dellaferrera , Gabriel Kreiman

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 de facto algorithm for training the back pass of a feedforward neural network is backpropagation (BP). The use of almost-everywhere differentiable activation functions made it efficient and effective to propagate the gradient backwards…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 John Waldo

While the backpropagation of error algorithm enables deep neural network training, it implies (i) bidirectional synaptic weight transport and (ii) update locking until the forward and backward passes are completed. Not only do these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-19 Charlotte Frenkel , Martin Lefebvre , David Bol

In this paper, we propose Stochastic Block-ADMM as an approach to train deep neural networks in batch and online settings. Our method works by splitting neural networks into an arbitrary number of blocks and utilizes auxiliary variables to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Saeed Khorram , Xiao Fu , Mohamad H. Danesh , Zhongang Qi , Li Fuxin

Training the deep convolutional neural network for computer vision problems is slow and inefficient, especially when it is large and distributed across multiple devices. The inefficiency is caused by the backpropagation algorithm's forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 An Xu , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Predictive coding networks are neural models that perform inference through an iterative energy minimization process, whose operations are local in space and time. While effective in shallow architectures, they suffer significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chang Qi , Matteo Forasassi , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Tommaso Salvatori

We present a global algorithm for training multilayer neural networks in this Letter. The algorithm is focused on controlling the local fields of neurons induced by the input of samples by random adaptations of the synaptic weights. Unlike…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hong Zhao , Tao Jin

Deep learning has revolutionized industries like computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition. However, back propagation, the main method for training deep neural networks, faces challenges like computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Gokulprasath R

We introduce a robust, error-tolerant adaptive training algorithm for generalized learning paradigms in high-dimensional superposed quantum networks, or \emph{adaptive quantum networks}. The formalized procedure applies standard…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Christopher Altman , Romàn R. Zapatrin

Backpropagation is the cornerstone of deep learning, but its reliance on symmetric weight transport and global synchronization makes it computationally expensive and biologically implausible. Feedback alignment offers a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jeonghwan Cheon , Jaehyuk Bae , Se-Bum Paik

In this paper we study a constraint-based representation of neural network architectures. We cast the learning problem in the Lagrangian framework and we investigate a simple optimization procedure that is well suited to fulfil the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Giuseppe Marra , Matteo Tiezzi , Stefano Melacci , Alessandro Betti , Marco Maggini , Marco Gori

Backpropagation has long been criticized for being biologically implausible due to its reliance on concepts that are not viable in natural learning processes. Two core issues are the weight transport and update locking problems caused by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Katharina Flügel , Daniel Coquelin , Marie Weiel , Charlotte Debus , Achim Streit , Markus Götz

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has achieved great success in training deep neural network, where the gradient is computed through back-propagation. However, the back-propagated values of different layers vary dramatically. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-28 Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu