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This work addresses weight optimization problem for fully-connected feed-forward neural networks. Unlike existing approaches that are based on back-propagation (BP) and chain rule gradient-based optimization (which implies iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Slavisa Tomic , João Pedro Matos-Carvalho , Marko Beko

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mohammadnavid Ghader , Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh , Bahar Farahani , Mahmood Fazlali

Recurrent neural network architectures can have useful computational properties, with complex temporal dynamics and input-sensitive attractor states. However, evaluation of recurrent dynamic architectures requires solution of systems of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Dylan Richard Muir

Deep learning models have proven to be exceptionally useful in performing many machine learning tasks. However, for each new dataset, choosing an effective size and structure of the model can be a time-consuming process of trial and error.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh , Dianne P O'Leary

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

We present a general framework for training deep neural networks without backpropagation. This substantially decreases training time and also allows for construction of deep networks with many sorts of learners, including networks whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-09 Chris Hettinger , Tanner Christensen , Ben Ehlert , Jeffrey Humpherys , Tyler Jarvis , Sean Wade

Single layer feedforward networks with random weights are known for their non-iterative and fast training algorithms and are successful in a variety of classification and regression problems. A major drawback of these networks is that they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Ajay M. Patrikar

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

We consider deep multi-layered generative models such as Boltzmann machines or Hopfield nets in which computation (which implements inference) is both recurrent and stochastic, but where the recurrence is not to model sequential structure,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Yoshua Bengio , Benjamin Scellier , Olexa Bilaniuk , Joao Sacramento , Walter Senn

The integration of constrained optimization models as components in deep networks has led to promising advances on many specialized learning tasks. A central challenge in this setting is backpropagation through the solution of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 James Kotary , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

This work presents a novel resolution-invariant model order reduction strategy for multifidelity applications. We base our architecture on a novel neural network layer developed in this work, the graph feedforward network, which extends the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Oisín M. Morrison , Federico Pichi , Jan S. Hesthaven

Hierarchical neural networks are exponentially more efficient than their corresponding "shallow" counterpart with the same expressive power, but involve huge number of parameters and require tedious amounts of training. Our main idea is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Bálint Daróczy , Rita Aleksziev , András Benczúr

Recent deep learning models such as ChatGPT utilizing the back-propagation algorithm have exhibited remarkable performance. However, the disparity between the biological brain processes and the back-propagation algorithm has been noted. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Taewook Hwang , Hyein Seo , Sangkeun Jung

In this paper we use deep feedforward artificial neural networks to approximate solutions to partial differential equations in complex geometries. We show how to modify the backpropagation algorithm to compute the partial derivatives of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Jens Berg , Kaj Nyström

We break the linear link between the layer size and its inference cost by introducing the fast feedforward (FFF) architecture, a log-time alternative to feedforward networks. We demonstrate that FFFs are up to 220x faster than feedforward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Peter Belcak , Roger Wattenhofer

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

A neural network with one hidden layer or a two-layer network (regardless of the input layer) is the simplest feedforward neural network, whose mechanism may be the basis of more general network architectures. However, even to this type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Changcun Huang

We present flattened convolutional neural networks that are designed for fast feedforward execution. The redundancy of the parameters, especially weights of the convolutional filters in convolutional neural networks has been extensively…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Jonghoon Jin , Aysegul Dundar , Eugenio Culurciello

Modern machine learning models are able to outperform humans on a variety of non-trivial tasks. However, as the complexity of the models increases, they consume significant amounts of power and still struggle to generalize effectively to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Thomas Dooms , Ing Jyh Tsang , Jose Oramas

The Forward-Forward algorithm eliminates backpropagation's memory constraints and biological implausibility through dual forward passes with positive and negative data. However, conventional implementations suffer from critical inter-layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Salar Beigzad