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Probabilistic circuits (PCs) are a family of generative models which allows for the computation of exact likelihoods and marginals of its probability distributions. PCs are both expressive and tractable, and serve as popular choices for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Andy Shih , Dorsa Sadigh , Stefano Ermon

Probabilistic inference provides a language for describing how organisms may learn from and adapt to their environment. The computations needed to implement probabilistic inference often require specific representations, akin to having the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-28 Yarden Katz , Michael Springer , Walter Fontana

Predictive Coding (PC) is an influential account of cortical learning. Much of recent work has focused on comparing PC to Backpropagation (BP) to find whether PC offers any advantages. Small scale experiments show that PC enables learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Gaspard Oliviers , Elene Lominadze , Rafal Bogacz

We propose Deep Autoencoding Predictive Components (DAPC) -- a self-supervised representation learning method for sequence data, based on the intuition that useful representations of sequence data should exhibit a simple structure in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Junwen Bai , Weiran Wang , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

Pretrained encoders for mathematical texts have achieved significant improvements on various tasks such as formula classification and information retrieval. Yet they remain limited in representing and capturing student strategies for entire…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Siddhartha Pradhan , Ethan Prihar , Erin Ottmar

Training with backpropagation (BP) in standard deep learning consists of two main steps: a forward pass that maps a data point to its prediction, and a backward pass that propagates the error of this prediction back through the network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Tommaso Salvatori , Luca Pinchetti , Beren Millidge , Yuhang Song , Tianyi Bao , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Lukasiewicz

In many machine learning tasks, learning a good representation of the data can be the key to building a well-performant solution. This is because most learning algorithms operate with the features in order to find models for the data. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 David Charte , Francisco Charte , María J. del Jesus , Francisco Herrera

Of particular interest is to discover useful representations solely from observations in an unsupervised generative manner. However, the question of whether existing normalizing flows provide effective representations for downstream tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Shen Li , Bryan Hooi

Learning speaker-specific features is vital in many applications like speaker recognition, diarization and speech recognition. This paper provides a novel approach, we term Neural Predictive Coding (NPC), to learn speaker-specific…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Arindam Jati , Panayiotis Georgiou

This paper introduces Associative Compression Networks (ACNs), a new framework for variational autoencoding with neural networks. The system differs from existing variational autoencoders (VAEs) in that the prior distribution used to model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Alex Graves , Jacob Menick , Aaron van den Oord

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) minimizes the reconstruction error given a class of linear models of fixed component dimensionality. Probabilistic PCA adds a probabilistic structure by learning the probability distribution of the PCA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vanessa Böhm , Uroš Seljak

An autoencoder is a neural network which data projects to and from a lower dimensional latent space, where this data is easier to understand and model. The autoencoder consists of two sub-networks, the encoder and the decoder, which carry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Saïd Ladjal , Alasdair Newson , Chi-Hieu Pham

Industrial embedded systems are typically used to execute simple control algorithms due to their low computational resources. Despite these limitations, the implementation of advanced control techniques such as Model Predictive Control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Victor Gracia , Pablo Krupa , Filiberto Fele , Teodoro Alamo

Representation learning aims to extract meaningful lower-dimensional embeddings from data, known as representations. Despite its widespread application, there is no established definition of a ``good'' representation. Typically, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Omar Al-Dabooni , Pascal Esser

Probabilistic representations, such as Bayesian and Markov networks, are fundamental to much of statistical machine learning. Thus, learning probabilistic representations directly from data is a deep challenge, the main computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Amelie Levray , Vaishak Belle

Probabilistic embeddings have several advantages over deterministic embeddings as they map each data point to a distribution, which better describes the uncertainty and complexity of data. Many works focus on adjusting the distribution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiang Huang , Hao Peng , Li Sun , Hui Lin , Chunyang Liu , Jiang Cao , Philip S. Yu

Predictive Coding (PC) offers a brain-inspired alternative to backpropagation for neural network training, described as a physical system minimizing its internal energy. However, in practice, PC is predominantly digitally simulated,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Cédric Goemaere , Gaspard Oliviers , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Demeester

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming one of the key technologies of this century. The majority of results in AI thus far have been achieved using deep neural networks trained with a learning algorithm called error…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Tommaso Salvatori , Ankur Mali , Christopher L. Buckley , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rajesh P. N. Rao , Karl Friston , Alexander Ororbia

A large body of the literature of automated program repair develops approaches where patches are generated to be validated against an oracle (e.g., a test suite). Because such an oracle can be imperfect, the generated patches, although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Haoye Tian , Kui Liu , Abdoul Kader Kaboreé , Anil Koyuncu , Li Li , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Predictive Coding (PC) is a biologically-inspired learning framework characterised by local, parallelisable operations, properties that enable energy-efficient implementation on neuromorphic hardware. Despite this, extending PC effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tom Potter , Oliver Rhodes