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In contrastive self-supervised learning, the common way to learn discriminative representation is to pull different augmented "views" of the same image closer while pushing all other images further apart, which has been proven to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Kaiyou Song , Shan Zhang , Zihao An , Zimeng Luo , Tong Wang , Jin Xie

The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a promising alternative to backpropagation (BP). Despite advancements in recent FF-based extensions, which have enhanced the original algorithm and adapted it to convolutional neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Qingchun Gong , Robert Bogdan Staszewski , Kai Xu

Catastrophic forgetting remains a central challenge in continual learning (CL) with pre-trained models. While existing approaches typically freeze the backbone and fine-tune a small number of parameters to mitigate forgetting, they still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiao Chen , Jiayi He , Fangfang Chen , Zuohong Lv , Jianhua Tang

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new learning procedure for neural networks and to demonstrate that it works well enough on a few small problems to be worth further investigation. The Forward-Forward algorithm replaces the forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Geoffrey Hinton

Classical machine learners are designed only to tackle one task without capability of adopting new emerging tasks or classes whereas such capacity is more practical and human-like in the real world. To address this shortcoming, continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Xuejun Han , Yuhong Guo

We develop a new stochastic algorithm with variance reduction for solving pseudo-monotone stochastic variational inequalities. Our method builds on Tseng's forward-backward-forward (FBF) algorithm, which is known in the deterministic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Radu Ioan Bot , Panayotis Mertikopoulos , Mathias Staudigl , Phan Tu Vuong

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm that allows multiple participants to train a shared model by exchanging model updates instead of their raw data. However, its performance is degraded compared to centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hyungbin Kim , Incheol Baek , Yon Dohn Chung

The Forward Forward algorithm, proposed by Geoffrey Hinton in November 2022, is a novel method for training neural networks as an alternative to backpropagation. In this project, we replicate Hinton's experiments on the MNIST dataset, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Saumya Gandhi , Ritu Gala , Jonah Kornberg , Advaith Sridhar

Training a neural network using backpropagation algorithm requires passing error gradients sequentially through the network. The backward locking prevents us from updating network layers in parallel and fully leveraging the computing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Zhouyuan Huo , Bin Gu , Heng Huang

This paper aims to enhance the use of the Frank-Wolfe (FW) algorithm for training deep neural networks. Similar to any gradient-based optimization algorithm, FW suffers from high computational and memory costs when computing gradients for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 M. Rostami , S. S. Kia

Zero-shot reinforcement learning is necessary for extracting optimal policies in absence of concrete rewards for fast adaptation to future problem settings. Forward-backward representations (FB) have emerged as a promising method for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Núria Armengol Urpí , Marin Vlastelica , Georg Martius , Stelian Coros

Recent advancements in zero-shot reinforcement learning (RL) have facilitated the extraction of diverse behaviors from unlabeled, offline data sources. In particular, forward-backward algorithms (FB) can retrieve a family of policies that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Marco Bagatella , Thomas Rupf , Georg Martius , Andreas Krause

Self-supervised pretraining has been shown to yield powerful representations for transfer learning. These performance gains come at a large computational cost however, with state-of-the-art methods requiring an order of magnitude more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Olivier J. Hénaff , Skanda Koppula , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aaron van den Oord , Oriol Vinyals , João Carreira

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Deep Learning's outstanding track record across several domains has stemmed from the use of error backpropagation (BP). Several studies, however, have shown that it is impossible to execute BP in a real brain. Also, BP still serves as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Swaroop Mishra , Anjana Arunkumar

In visual retrieval systems, updating the embedding model requires recomputing features for every piece of data. This expensive process is referred to as backfilling. Recently, the idea of backward compatible training (BCT) was proposed. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Vivek Ramanujan , Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , Ali Farhadi , Oncel Tuzel , Hadi Pouransari

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Most previous few-shot learning algorithms are based on meta-training with fake few-shot tasks as training samples, where large labeled base classes are required. The trained model is also limited by the type of tasks. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jianyi Li , Guizhong Liu

Long-term forecasting presents unique challenges due to the time and memory complexity of handling long sequences. Existing methods, which rely on sliding windows to process long sequences, struggle to effectively capture long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Junwoo Park , Daehoon Gwak , Jaegul Choo , Edward Choi

A two-stage training paradigm consisting of sequential pre-training and meta-training stages has been widely used in current few-shot learning (FSL) research. Many of these methods use self-supervised learning and contrastive learning to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhanyuan Yang , Jinghua Wang , Yingying Zhu