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Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-11-18 Alejandro Chinea

Deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) hold great potential for improving the latency and energy efficiency of deep neural networks through event-based computation. However, training such networks is difficult due to the non-differentiable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Jun Haeng Lee , Tobi Delbruck , Michael Pfeiffer

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) using traditional backpropagation (BP) presents challenges in terms of computational complexity and energy consumption, particularly for on-device learning where computational resources are limited.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marco Paul E. Apolinario , Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

Gradient descent computed by backpropagation (BP) is a widely used learning method for training artificial neural networks but has several limitations: it is computationally demanding, requires frequent manual tuning of the network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-02 Jiaqi Xing , Libo Chen , ZeZheng Zhang , Mohammed Nazibul Hasan , Zhi-Bin Zhang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Shixian Wen , Laurent Itti

Advancements in parallel processing have lead to a surge in multilayer perceptrons' (MLP) applications and deep learning in the past decades. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) give additional representational power to feedforward MLPs by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-22 Saahil Ognawala , Justin Bayer

Convolutional neural networks are witnessing wide adoption in computer vision systems with numerous applications across a range of visual recognition tasks. Much of this progress is fueled through advances in convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Marios Savvides

The success of deep learning, a brain-inspired form of AI, has sparked interest in understanding how the brain could similarly learn across multiple layers of neurons. However, the majority of biologically-plausible learning algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Alexander Meulemans , Francesco S. Carzaniga , Johan A. K. Suykens , João Sacramento , Benjamin F. Grewe

Numerous empirical evidence has corroborated that the noise plays a crucial rule in effective and efficient training of neural networks. The theory behind, however, is still largely unknown. This paper studies this fundamental problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mo Zhou , Tianyi Liu , Yan Li , Dachao Lin , Enlu Zhou , Tuo Zhao

Despite the notable success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in solving complex tasks, the training process still remains considerable challenges. A primary obstacle is the substantial time required for training, particularly as high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

The canonical deep learning approach for learning requires computing a gradient term at each block by back-propagating the error signal from the output towards each learnable parameter. Given the stacked structure of neural networks, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qinyu Li , Yee Whye Teh , Razvan Pascanu

Neural network optimization remains one of the most consequential yet poorly understood challenges in modern AI research, where improvements in training algorithms can lead to enhanced feature learning in foundation models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ansh Nagwekar

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) can utilize spatio-temporal information and have a nature of energy efficiency which is a good alternative to deep neural networks(DNNs). The event-driven information processing makes SNNs can reduce the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Changqing Xu , Yi Liu , Yintang Yang

Deep Learning using the eponymous deep neural networks (DNNs) has become an attractive approach towards various data-based problems of theoretical physics in the past decade. There has been a clear trend to deeper architectures containing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Bastian Kaspschak , Ulf-G. Meißner

Deep neural networks can be fooled by adversarial attacks: adding carefully computed small adversarial perturbations to clean inputs can cause misclassification on state-of-the-art machine learning models. The reason is that neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Shixian Wen , Amanda Rios , Laurent Itti

Backward propagation (BP) is widely used to compute the gradients in neural network training. However, it is hard to implement BP on edge devices due to the lack of hardware and software resources to support automatic differentiation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yequan Zhao , Xinling Yu , Zhixiong Chen , Ziyue Liu , Sijia Liu , Zheng Zhang

The problem of training spiking neural networks (SNNs) is a necessary precondition to understanding computations within the brain, a field still in its infancy. Previous work has shown that supervised learning in multi-layer SNNs enables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Amirhossein Tavanaei , Anthony S. Maida

Training neural networks with back-propagation (BP) requires a sequential passing of activations and gradients, which forces the network modules to work in a synchronous fashion. This has been recognized as the lockings (i.e., the forward,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Huiping Zhuang , Yi Wang , Qinglai Liu , Shuai Zhang , Zhiping Lin

Training neural networks with reinforcement learning (RL) typically relies on backpropagation (BP), necessitating storage of activations from the forward pass for subsequent backward updates. Furthermore, backpropagating error signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Daniel Tanneberg

The spiking neural network (SNN) mimics the information processing operation in the human brain, represents and transmits information in spike trains containing wealthy spatial and temporal information, and shows superior performance on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Guobin Shen , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng