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Non-differentiable and constrained optimization play a key role in machine learning, signal and image processing, communications, and beyond. For high-dimensional minimization problems involving large datasets or many unknowns, the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer , Richard Baraniuk

Backpropagation is the core learning mechanism underlying deep learning. However, whether and how this algorithm is implemented in the brain remains highly debated. In particular, while forward activations of pretrained models reliably map…

Training convolutional neural network models is memory intensive since back-propagation requires storing activations of all intermediate layers. This presents a practical concern when seeking to deploy very deep architectures in production,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Ayan Chakrabarti , Benjamin Moseley

Back-propagation algorithm is one of the most widely used and popular techniques to optimize the feed forward neural network training. Nature inspired meta-heuristic algorithms also provide derivative-free solution to optimize complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-13 Sudarshan Nandy , Partha Pratim Sarkar , Achintya Das

Backpropagation is a classic automatic differentiation algorithm computing the gradient of functions specified by a certain class of simple, first-order programs, called computational graphs. It is a fundamental tool in several fields, most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Alois Brunel , Damiano Mazza , Michele Pagani

We marry ideas from deep neural networks and approximate Bayesian inference to derive a generalised class of deep, directed generative models, endowed with a new algorithm for scalable inference and learning. Our algorithm introduces a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-06-02 Danilo Jimenez Rezende , Shakir Mohamed , Daan Wierstra

It is widely believed that the backpropagation algorithm is essential for learning good feature detectors in early layers of artificial neural networks, so that these detectors are useful for the task performed by the higher layers of that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Dmitry Krotov , John Hopfield

A recent paper by Boughammoura (2023) describes the back-propagation algorithm in terms of an alternative formulation called the F-adjoint method. In particular, by the F-adjoint algorithm the computation of the loss gradient, with respect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ahmed Boughammoura

The present work deals with an improved back-propagation algorithm based on Gauss-Newton numerical optimization method for fast convergence. The steepest descent method is used for the back-propagation. The algorithm is tested using various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Sudarshan Nandy , Partha Pratim Sarkar , Achintya Das

Incorporating the Forward Forward algorithm into neural network training represents a transformative shift from traditional methods, introducing a dual forward mechanism that streamlines the learning process by bypassing the complexities of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Mitra Bakhshi

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

The rising computational and energy demands of deep neural networks (DNNs), driven largely by backpropagation (BP), challenge sustainable AI development. This paper rigorously investigates three BP-free training methods: the Forward-Forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Przemysław Spyra

Recent years have witnessed the outstanding success of deep learning in various fields such as vision and natural language processing. This success is largely indebted to the massive size of deep learning models that is expected to increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ali Momeni , Babak Rahmani , Matthieu Mallejac , Philipp Del Hougne , Romain Fleury

While current deep learning algorithms have been successful for a wide variety of artificial intelligence (AI) tasks, including those involving structured image data, they present deep neurophysiological conceptual issues due to their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Timothy Zee , Alexander G. Ororbia , Ankur Mali , Ifeoma Nwogu

Recent efforts in applying implicit networks to solve inverse problems in imaging have achieved competitive or even superior results when compared to feedforward networks. These implicit networks only require constant memory during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Linghai Liu , Shuaicheng Tong , Lisa Zhao

Backpropagation has been the cornerstone of neural network training for decades, yet its inefficiencies in time and energy consumption limit its suitability for resource-constrained edge devices. While low-precision neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jingxiao Ma , Priyadarshini Panda , Sherief Reda

Back-propagation is a popular machine learning algorithm that uses gradient descent in training neural networks for supervised learning, but can be very slow. A number of algorithms have been developed to speed up convergence and improve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ho Ling Li

Fisher-Vectors (FV) encode higher-order statistics of a set of multiple local descriptors like SIFT features. They already show good performance in combination with shallow learning architectures on visual recognitions tasks. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Patrick Wieschollek , Fabian Groh , Hendrik P. A. Lensch

Back-propagation (BP) is widely used learning algorithm for neural network optimization. However, BP requires enormous computation cost and is too slow to train in central processing unit (CPU). Therefore current neural network optimizaiton…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ryoungwoo Jang

Neural stochastic differential equation model with a Brownian motion term can capture epistemic uncertainty of deep neural network from the perspective of a dynamical system. The goal of this paper is to improve the convergence rate of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Daili Sheng , Minghui Song , Xiang Peng , Xuanqi Dong