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The pursuit of energy-efficient and adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) has positioned neuromorphic computing as a promising alternative to conventional computing. However, achieving learning on these platforms requires techniques that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jesús García Fernández , Nasir Ahmad , Marcel van Gerven

Questions remain on the robustness of data-driven learning methods when crossing the gap from simulation to reality. We utilize weight anchoring, a method known from continual learning, to cultivate and fixate desired behavior in Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Steffen Gracla , Edgar Beck , Carsten Bockelmann , Armin Dekorsy

Existing adaptive bias techniques, which seek to estimate free energies and physical properties from molecular simulations, are limited by their reliance on fixed kernels or basis sets which hinder their ability to efficiently conform to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-04 Hythem Sidky , Jonathan K. Whitmer

The universal approximation property is fundamental to the success of neural networks, and has traditionally been achieved by training networks without any constraints on their parameters. However, recent experimental research proposed a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Yongqiang Cai , Gaohang Chen , Zhonghua Qiao

Optimal parameter initialization remains a crucial problem for neural network training. A poor weight initialization may take longer to train and/or converge to sub-optimal solutions. Here, we propose a method of weight re-initialization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Norman Mu , Zhewei Yao , Amir Gholami , Kurt Keutzer , Michael Mahoney

Plasticity Loss is an increasingly important phenomenon that refers to the empirical observation that as a neural network is continually trained on a sequence of changing tasks, its ability to adapt to a new task diminishes over time. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Vivek F. Farias , Adam D. Jozefiak

Parallels between the signal processing tasks and biological neurons lead to an understanding of the principles of self-organized optimization of input signal recognition. In the present paper, we discuss such similarities among biological…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-03 Oleg Nikitin , Olga Lukyanova , Alex Kunin

We introduce a new, efficient, principled and backpropagation-compatible algorithm for learning a probability distribution on the weights of a neural network, called Bayes by Backprop. It regularises the weights by minimising a compression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-22 Charles Blundell , Julien Cornebise , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Daan Wierstra

Biological nervous systems consist of networks of diverse, sophisticated information processors in the form of neurons of different classes. In most artificial neural networks (ANNs), neural computation is abstracted to an activation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Joachim Winther Pedersen , Sebastian Risi

In this paper, we propose a principled deep reinforcement learning (RL) approach that is able to accelerate the convergence rate of general deep neural networks (DNNs). With our approach, a deep RL agent (synonym for optimizer in this work)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Jie Fu

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are typically confined to accomplishing pre-defined tasks by learning a set of static parameters. In contrast, biological neural networks (BNNs) can adapt to various new tasks by continually updating the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Fan Wang , Hao Tian , Haoyi Xiong , Hua Wu , Jie Fu , Yang Cao , Yu Kang , Haifeng Wang

This paper presents a method for optimizing wireless networks by adjusting cell parameters that affect both the performance of the cell being optimized and the surrounding cells. The method uses multiple reinforcement learning agents that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Adriano Mendo , Jose Outes-Carnero , Yak Ng-Molina , Juan Ramiro-Moreno

Biological agents are known to learn many different tasks over the course of their lives, and to be able to revisit previous tasks and behaviors with little to no loss in performance. In contrast, artificial agents are prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Ta-Chu Kao , Kristopher T. Jensen , Gido M. van de Ven , Alberto Bernacchia , Guillaume Hennequin

Learning the optimized solution as a function of environmental parameters is effective in solving numerical optimization in real time for time-sensitive applications. Existing works of learning to optimize train deep neural networks (DNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Chengjian Sun , Chenyang Yang

In this paper, we consider reinforcement learning of nonlinear systems with continuous state and action spaces. We present an episodic learning algorithm, where we for each episode use convex optimization to find a two-layer neural network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Ather Gattami

Self-replication is a key aspect of biological life that has been largely overlooked in Artificial Intelligence systems. Here we describe how to build and train self-replicating neural networks. The network replicates itself by learning to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Oscar Chang , Hod Lipson

Efficient representation learning is essential for optimal information storage and classification. However, it is frequently overlooked in artificial neural networks (ANNs). This neglect results in networks that can become overparameterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Patrick Stricker , Florian Röhrbein , Andreas Knoblauch

The best performing Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are usually attained using Adam optimization and its multi-step training variants. However, to the best of our knowledge, few studies explore the fundamental reasons why Adam is superior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zechun Liu , Zhiqiang Shen , Shichao Li , Koen Helwegen , Dong Huang , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Neuroscientists have long criticised deep learning algorithms as incompatible with current knowledge of neurobiology. We explore more biologically plausible versions of deep representation learning, focusing here mostly on unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Yoshua Bengio , Dong-Hyun Lee , Jorg Bornschein , Thomas Mesnard , Zhouhan Lin

Neural network training can be accelerated when a learnable update rule is used in lieu of classic adaptive optimizers (e.g. Adam). However, learnable update rules can be costly and unstable to train and use. Recently, Jang et al. (2023)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Boris Knyazev , Abhinav Moudgil , Guillaume Lajoie , Eugene Belilovsky , Simon Lacoste-Julien