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Ongoing studies have identified similarities between neural representations in biological networks and in deep artificial neural networks. This has led to renewed interest in developing analogies between the backpropagation learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Theodore H. Moskovitz , Ashok Litwin-Kumar , L. F. Abbott

Standard deep learning relies on Backpropagation (BP), which is constrained by biologically implausible weight symmetry and suffers from significant gradient interference within dense representations. To mitigate these bottlenecks, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Fanping Liu , Hua Yang , Jiasi Zou

Stochastic gradient descent with backpropagation is the workhorse of artificial neural networks. It has long been recognized that backpropagation fails to be a biologically plausible algorithm. Fundamentally, it is a non-local procedure --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-24 Ganlin Song , Ruitu Xu , John Lafferty

The backpropagation algorithm is often debated for its biological plausibility. However, various learning methods for neural architecture have been proposed in search of more biologically plausible learning. Most of them have tried to solve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Shashi Kant Gupta

Advanced deep learning architectures consist of tens of fully connected and convolutional hidden layers, currently extended to hundreds, are far from their biological realization. Their implausible biological dynamics relies on changing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yuval Meir , Itamar Ben-Noam , Yarden Tzach , Shiri Hodassman , Ido Kanter

Training deep neural networks (DNNs) efficiently is a challenge due to the associated highly nonconvex optimization. The backpropagation (backprop) algorithm has long been the most widely used algorithm for gradient computation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-28 Tim Tsz-Kit Lau , Jinshan Zeng , Baoyuan Wu , Yuan Yao

Despite considerable theoretical progress in the training of neural networks viewed as a multi-agent system of neurons, particularly concerning biological plausibility and decentralized training, their applicability to real-world problems…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Arshia Soltani Moakhar , Mohammad Azizmalayeri , Hossein Mirzaei , Mohammad Taghi Manzuri , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Significant success has been reported recently using deep neural networks for classification. Such large networks can be computationally intensive, even after training is over. Implementing these trained networks in hardware chips with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-25 Daniel Soudry , Ron Meir

Artificial neural networks, one of the most successful approaches to supervised learning, were originally inspired by their biological counterparts. However, the most successful learning algorithm for artificial neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Matilde Tristany Farinha , Sérgio Pequito , Pedro A. Santos , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

The field of artificial intelligence faces significant challenges in achieving both biological plausibility and computational efficiency, particularly in visual learning tasks. Current artificial neural networks, such as convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacobo Ruiz , Manas Gupta

The feasibility of deep neural networks (DNNs) to address data stream problems still requires intensive study because of the static and offline nature of conventional deep learning approaches. A deep continual learning algorithm, namely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Andri Ashfahani , Mahardhika Pratama

Backpropagation algorithm is indispensable for the training of feedforward neural networks. It requires propagating error gradients sequentially from the output layer all the way back to the input layer. The backward locking in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Zhouyuan Huo , Bin Gu , Qian Yang , Heng Huang

Backpropagation of error (backprop) is a powerful algorithm for training machine learning architectures through end-to-end differentiation. However, backprop is often criticised for lacking biological plausibility. Recently, it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Beren Millidge , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

The ubiquitous backpropagation algorithm requires sequential updates through the network introducing a locking problem. In addition, back-propagation relies on the transpose of forward weight matrices to compute updates, introducing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 David Kappel , Khaleelulla Khan Nazeer , Cabrel Teguemne Fokam , Christian Mayr , Anand Subramoney

Recently emerged technologies based on Deep Learning (DL) achieved outstanding results on a variety of tasks in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, these encounter several challenges related to robustness to adversarial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Gabriele Lagani , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

The feedback alignment (FA) algorithm offers a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation (BP) for training neural networks yet notably fails to scale to convolutional architectures. Modifications have been proposed to address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jake Lance , Larry Kieu

Understanding and controlling the informational complexity of neural networks is a central challenge in machine learning, with implications for generalization, optimization, and model capacity. While most approaches rely on entropy-based…

In a physical neural system, where storage and processing are intimately intertwined, the rules for adjusting the synaptic weights can only depend on variables that are available locally, such as the activity of the pre- and post-synaptic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Pierre Baldi , Peter Sadowski

The Bin Packing Problem (BPP) has attracted enthusiastic research interest recently, owing to widespread applications in logistics and warehousing environments. It is truly essential to optimize the bin packing to enable more objects to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Baoying Wang , Huixu Dong