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Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically inspired learning algorithm for convergent recurrent neural networks, i.e. RNNs that are fed by a static input x and settle to a steady state. Training convergent RNNs consists in adjusting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Maxence Ernoult , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz , Yoshua Bengio , Benjamin Scellier

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically inspired local learning rule first proposed for convergent recurrent neural networks (CRNNs), in which synaptic updates depend only on neuron states from two distinct phases. EP estimates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiaqi Lin , Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically-inspired algorithm for convergent RNNs with a local learning rule that comes with strong theoretical guarantees. The parameter updates of the neural network during the credit assignment phase…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Axel Laborieux , Maxence Ernoult , Benjamin Scellier , Yoshua Bengio , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically-inspired counterpart of Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) which, owing to its strong theoretical guarantees and the locality in space of its learning rule, fosters the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Axel Laborieux , Maxence Ernoult , Benjamin Scellier , Yoshua Bengio , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) promise energy-efficient, sparse, biologically inspired computation. Training them with Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT) and surrogate gradients achieves strong performance but remains biologically…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiaqi Lin , Yi Jiang , Abhronil Sengupta

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically inspired alternative algorithm to backpropagation (BP) for training neural networks. It applies to RNNs fed by a static input x that settle to a steady state, such as Hopfield networks. EP is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Maxence Ernoult , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz , Yoshua Bengio , Benjamin Scellier

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a learning algorithm that bridges Machine Learning and Neuroscience, by computing gradients closely matching those of Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT), but with a learning rule local in space. Given an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Maxence Ernoult , Julie Grollier , Damien Querlioz , Yoshua Bengio , Benjamin Scellier

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a supervised learning algorithm that trains network parameters using local neuronal activity. This is in stark contrast to backpropagation, where updating the parameters of the network requires significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jonathan Peters , Philippe Talatchian

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is an algorithm intrinsically adapted to the training of physical networks, thanks to the local updates of weights given by the internal dynamics of the system. However, the construction of such a hardware…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Jérémie Laydevant , Maxence Ernoult , Damien Querlioz , Julie Grollier

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) trained using Equilibrium Propagation (EP), a biologically plausible training algorithm, have demonstrated strong performance in various tasks such as image classification and reinforcement learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yoshimasa Kubo , Jean Erik Delanois , Maxim Bazhenov

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a powerful and more bio-plausible alternative to conventional learning frameworks such as backpropagation. The effectiveness of EP stems from the fact that it relies only on local computations and requires…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Malyaban Bal , Abhronil Sengupta

Brain-like intelligent systems need brain-like learning methods. Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a biologically plausible learning framework with strong potential for brain-inspired computing hardware. However, existing im-plementations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhuo Liu , Tao Chen

Equilibrium propagation (EP) is an alternative to backpropagation (BP) that allows the training of deep neural networks with local learning rules. It thus provides a compelling framework for training neuromorphic systems and understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke

Finding spike-based learning algorithms that can be implemented within the local constraints of neuromorphic systems, while achieving high accuracy, remains a formidable challenge. Equilibrium Propagation is a promising alternative to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Erwann Martin , Maxence Ernoult , Jérémie Laydevant , Shuai Li , Damien Querlioz , Teodora Petrisor , Julie Grollier

Backpropagation learning algorithm, the workhorse of modern artificial intelligence, is notoriously difficult to implement in physical neural networks. Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is an alternative with comparable efficiency and strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Karol Sajnok , Michał Matuszewski

Equilibrium Propagation (EP) is a physics-inspired learning algorithm that uses stationary states of a dynamical system both for inference and learning. In its original formulation it is limited to conservative systems, $\textit{i.e.}$ to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Antonino Emanuele Scurria , Dimitri Vanden Abeele , Bortolo Matteo Mognetti , Serge Massar

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) contain more biologically realistic structures and biologically-inspired learning principles than those in standard Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). SNNs are considered the third generation of ANNs, powerful…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tielin Zhang , Shuncheng Jia , Xiang Cheng , Bo Xu

Spiking neural networks (SNN) have recently emerged as alternatives to traditional neural networks, owing to energy efficiency benefits and capacity to better capture biological neuronal mechanisms. However, the classic backpropagation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Jane H. Lee , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Amin Karbasi

Equilibrium propagation (EP) is a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation (BP), but its effectiveness can degrade in deeper and more challenging learning settings. In parallel, dendritic neural networks have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yoshimasa Kubo

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as a hardware efficient architecture for classification tasks. The challenge of spike-based encoding has been the lack of a universal training mechanism performed entirely using spikes. There have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Anmol Biswas , Vivek Saraswat , Udayan Ganguly
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