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Training convolutional neural network models is memory intensive since back-propagation requires storing activations of all intermediate layers. This presents a practical concern when seeking to deploy very deep architectures in production,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Ayan Chakrabarti , Benjamin Moseley

Quantization is a crucial technique for deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained devices, such as embedded FPGAs. Prior efforts mostly focus on quantizing matrix multiplications, leaving other layers like BatchNorm or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Dingyi Dai , Yichi Zhang , Jiahao Zhang , Zhanqiu Hu , Yaohui Cai , Qi Sun , Zhiru Zhang

AI-driven medical diagnostics increasingly requires collaborative model training across institutions, yet centralizing patient data conflicts with privacy regulations. Federated Learning enables distributed training without raw data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Suzukaze Kamei , Hideaki Kawaguchi , Takahiko Satoh

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) has surfaced as a pioneering framework addressing sequential control tasks and time-series modeling. It has demonstrated empirical quantum advantages notably within domains such as Reinforcement Learning (RL)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

Optimal control of complex environments with robotic systems faces two complementary and intertwined challenges: efficient organization of sensory state information and far-sighted action planning. Because the reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Abdullah Akgül , Gulcin Baykal , Manuel Haußmann , Mustafa Mert Çelikok , Melih Kandemir

The forward-forward algorithm presents a new method of training neural networks by updating weights during an inference, performing parameter updates for each layer individually. This immediately reduces memory requirements during training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Michael Hopwood

We introduce Error Forward-Propagation, a biologically plausible mechanism to propagate error feedback forward through the network. Architectural constraints on connectivity are virtually eliminated for error feedback in the brain;…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Adam A. Kohan , Edward A. Rietman , Hava T. Siegelmann

In this study, we explore the innovative domain of Quantum Federated Learning (QFL) as a framework for training Quantum Machine Learning (QML) models via distributed networks. Conventional machine learning models frequently grapple with…

Federated learning is a machine learning training paradigm that enables clients to jointly train models without sharing their own localized data. However, the implementation of federated learning in practice still faces numerous challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yujia Wang , Lu Lin , Jinghui Chen

Backpropagation has been the cornerstone of neural network training for decades, yet its inefficiencies in time and energy consumption limit its suitability for resource-constrained edge devices. While low-precision neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jingxiao Ma , Priyadarshini Panda , Sherief Reda

We propose a distributed deep learning model to successfully learn control policies directly from high-dimensional sensory input using reinforcement learning. The model is based on the deep Q-network, a convolutional neural network trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Hao Yi Ong , Kevin Chavez , Augustus Hong

Humans and animals have a natural ability to quickly adapt to their surroundings, but machine-learning models, when subjected to changes, often require a complete retraining from scratch. We present Knowledge-adaptation priors (K-priors) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Siddharth Swaroop

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is a combination of distributed quantum computing and federated machine learning, integrating the strengths of both to enable privacy-preserving decentralized learning with quantum-enhanced capabilities. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Dinh C. Nguyen , Md Raihan Uddin , Shaba Shaon , Ratun Rahman , Octavia Dobre , Dusit Niyato

We devise a new type of feedforward neural network. It is equivariant with respect to the unitary group $U(n)$. The input and output can be vectors in $\mathbb{C}^n$ with arbitrary dimension $n$. No convolution layer is required in our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Pui-Wai Ma , T. -H. Hubert Chan

$Q$-learning is the most fundamental model-free reinforcement learning algorithm. Deployment of $Q$-learning requires approximation of the state-action value function (also known as the $Q$-function). In this work, we provide online random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-11 Joosung Min , Lloyd T. Elliott

In contrast to supervised backpropagation-based feature learning in deep neural networks (DNNs), an unsupervised feedforward feature (UFF) learning scheme for joint classification and segmentation of 3D point clouds is proposed in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Min Zhang , Pranav Kadam , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Currently, the most successful learning models in computer vision are based on learning successive representations followed by a decision layer. This is usually actualized through feedforward multilayer neural networks, e.g. ConvNets, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Amir R. Zamir , Te-Lin Wu , Lin Sun , William Shen , Jitendra Malik , Silvio Savarese

Agents that operate autonomously benefit from lifelong learning capabilities. However, compatible training algorithms must comply with the decentralized nature of these systems, which imposes constraints on both the parameter counts and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Xing Chen , Dongshu Liu , Jeremie Laydevant , Julie Grollier

Federated learning has recently emerged as a paradigm promising the benefits of harnessing rich data from diverse sources to train high quality models, with the salient features that training datasets never leave local devices. Only model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Yifeng Zheng , Shangqi Lai , Yi Liu , Xingliang Yuan , Xun Yi , Cong Wang

Artificial neural networks are promising for general function approximation but challenging to train on non-independent or non-identically distributed data due to catastrophic forgetting. The experience replay buffer, a standard component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Qingfeng Lan , Yangchen Pan , Jun Luo , A. Rupam Mahmood