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Parameterized feedforward control is at the basis of many successful control applications with varying references. The aim of this paper is to develop an efficient data-driven approach to learn the feedforward parameters for MIMO systems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Leontine Aarnoudse , Tom Oomen

Backpropagation is the pivotal algorithm underpinning the success of artificial neural networks, yet it has critical limitations such as biologically implausible backward locking and global error propagation. To circumvent these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 James Gong , Raymond Luo , Emma Wang , Leon Ge , Bruce Li , Felix Marattukalam , Waleed Abdulla

Function regression/approximation is a fundamental application of machine learning. Neural networks (NNs) can be easily trained for function regression using a sufficient number of neurons and epochs. The forward-forward learning algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Shivam Padmani , Akshay Joshi

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

In this paper, we aim at providing an introduction to the gradient descent based optimization algorithms for learning deep neural network models. Deep learning models involving multiple nonlinear projection layers are very challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Jiawei Zhang

The backpropagation algorithm, which had been originally introduced in the 1970s, is the workhorse of learning in neural networks. This backpropagation algorithm makes use of the famous machine learning algorithm known as Gradient Descent,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Varun Ranganathan , S. Natarajan

Forward Gradients - the idea of using directional derivatives in forward differentiation mode - have recently been shown to be utilizable for neural network training while avoiding problems generally associated with backpropagation gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Louis Fournier , Stéphane Rivaud , Eugene Belilovsky , Michael Eickenberg , Edouard Oyallon

Representations are fundamental to artificial intelligence. The performance of a learning system depends on the type of representation used for representing the data. Typically, these representations are hand-engineered using domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Vivek Veeriah , Shangtong Zhang , Richard S. Sutton

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

Over the past two decades, the feedforward neural network (FNN) optimization has been a key interest among the researchers and practitioners of multiple disciplines. The FNN optimization is often viewed from the various perspectives: the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Varun Kumar Ojha , Ajith Abraham , Václav Snášel

The gradients used to train neural networks are typically computed using backpropagation. While an efficient way to obtain exact gradients, backpropagation is computationally expensive, hinders parallelization, and is biologically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Katharina Flügel , Daniel Coquelin , Marie Weiel , Charlotte Debus , Achim Streit , Markus Götz

The paper contributes to strengthening the relation between machine learning and the theory of differential equations. In this context, the inverse problem of fitting the parameters, and the initial condition of a differential equation to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Imre Fekete , András Molnár , Péter L. Simon

The backpropagation algorithm, or backprop, is a widely utilized optimization technique in deep learning. While there's growing evidence suggesting that models trained with backprop can accurately explain neuronal data, no backprop-like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Gananath R

The back-propagation algorithm has long been the de-facto standard in optimizing weights and biases in neural networks, particularly in cutting-edge deep learning models. Its widespread adoption in fields like natural language processing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Sidike Paheding , Abel A. Reyes-Angulo

Training very deep networks is an important open problem in machine learning. One of many difficulties is that the norm of the back-propagated error gradient can grow or decay exponentially. Here we show that training very deep feed-forward…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-03 David Sussillo , L. F. Abbott

Backpropagation has long been criticized for being biologically implausible due to its reliance on concepts that are not viable in natural learning processes. Two core issues are the weight transport and update locking problems caused by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Katharina Flügel , Daniel Coquelin , Marie Weiel , Charlotte Debus , Achim Streit , Markus Götz

Neural networks are popular state-of-the-art models for many different tasks.They are often trained via back-propagation to find a value of the weights that correctly predicts the observed data. Although back-propagation has shown good…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-29 Simón Rodríguez Santana , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

We establish a convergence theorem for a certain type of stochastic gradient descent, which leads to a convergent variant of the back-propagation algorithm

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Hao Wu

Supervised learning in deep neural networks is commonly performed using error backpropagation. However, the sequential propagation of errors during the backward pass limits its scalability and applicability to low-powered neuromorphic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Florian Bacho , Dominique Chu

Neural differential equations may be trained by backpropagating gradients via the adjoint method, which is another differential equation typically solved using an adaptive-step-size numerical differential equation solver. A proposed step is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Patrick Kidger , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Terry Lyons