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We propose a new variant of online learning that we call "ambiguous online learning". In this setting, the learner is allowed to produce multiple predicted labels. Such an "ambiguous prediction" is considered correct when at least one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Vanessa Kosoy

Physical networks, such as biological neural networks, can learn desired functions without a central processor, using local learning rules in space and time to learn in a fully distributed manner. Learning approaches such as equilibrium…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-17 Menachem Stern , Sam Dillavou , Marc Z. Miskin , Douglas J. Durian , Andrea J. Liu

Batch training of machine learning models based on neural networks is now well established, whereas to date streaming methods are largely based on linear models. To go beyond linear in the online setting, nonparametric methods are of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Alec Koppel , Amrit Singh Bedi , Ketan Rajawat , Brian M. Sadler

We study a theoretical and algorithmic framework for structured prediction in the online learning setting. The problem of structured prediction, i.e. estimating function where the output space lacks a vectorial structure, is well studied in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Pierre Boudart , Alessandro Rudi , Pierre Gaillard

Equilibrium statistical physics is applied to layered neural networks with differentiable activation functions. A first analysis of off-line learning in soft-committee machines with a finite number (K) of hidden units learning a perfectly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Biehl , E. Schloesser , M. Ahr

A general scheme to realize a perceptron for hardware neural networks is presented, where multiple interconnections are achieved by a superposition of Schrodinger waves. Spatially patterned potentials process information by coupling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-22 T. Espinosa-Ortega , T. C. H. Liew

Deep neural networks are widely used prediction algorithms whose performance often improves as the number of weights increases, leading to over-parametrization. We consider a two-layered neural network whose first layer is frozen while the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Roman Worschech , Bernd Rosenow

The domain of online learning has experienced multifaceted expansion owing to its prevalence in real-life applications. Nonetheless, this progression operates under the assumption that the input feature space of the streaming data remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Rohit Agarwal , Arijit Das , Alexander Horsch , Krishna Agarwal , Dilip K. Prasad

Continual Learning aims to bring machine learning into a more realistic scenario, where tasks are learned sequentially and the i.i.d. assumption is not preserved. Although this setting is natural for biological systems, it proves very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Paweł Morawiecki , Andrii Krutsylo , Maciej Wołczyk , Marek Śmieja

In machine learning, error back-propagation in multi-layer neural networks (deep learning) has been impressively successful in supervised and reinforcement learning tasks. As a model for learning in the brain, however, deep learning has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Thomas Mesnard , Wulfram Gerstner , Johanni Brea

On the basis of the general form for the energy needed to adapt the connection strengths of a network in which learning takes place, a local learning rule is found for the changes of the weights. This biologically realizable learning rule…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Heerema , W. A. van Leeuwen

Understanding when learning is possible is a fundamental task in the theory of machine learning. However, many characterizations known from the literature deal with abstract learning as a mathematical object and ignore the crucial question:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Dariusz Kalociński , Tomasz Steifer

We propose a novel online learning paradigm for nonlinear-function estimation tasks based on the iterative projections in the L2 space with probability measure reflecting the stochastic property of input signals. The proposed learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-13 Motoya Ohnishi , Masahiro Yukawa

Studies of networked phenomena, such as interactions in online social media, often rely on incomplete data, either because these phenomena are partially observed, or because the data is too large or expensive to acquire all at once.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Timothy LaRock , Timothy Sakharov , Sahely Bhadra , Tina Eliassi-Rad

This paper deals with the problem of finite-time learning for unknown discrete-time nonlinear systems' dynamics, without the requirement of the persistence of excitation. Two finite-time concurrent learning methods are presented to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Farzaneh Tatari , Christos Panayiotou , Marios Polycarpou

This open problem asks whether there exists an online learning algorithm for binary classification that guarantees, for all target concepts, to make a sublinear number of mistakes, under only the assumption that the (possibly random)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Steve Hanneke

Most self-supervised learning (SSL) methods learn continuous visual representations by aligning different views of the same input, offering limited control over how information is structured across representation dimensions. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kawtar Zaher , Ilyass Moummad , Olivier Buisson , Alexis Joly

We propose a decentralized online learning algorithm for distributed random inverse problems over network graphs with online measurements, and unifies the distributed parameter estimation in Hilbert spaces and the least mean square problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Xiwei Zhang , Tao Li , Yan Chen , Qianyuan Long

This paper addresses a learning problem for nonlinear dynamical systems with incorporating any specified dissipativity property. The nonlinear systems are described by the Koopman operator, which is a linear operator defined on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Keita Hara , Masaki Inoue , Noboru Sebe

We analyze a learning method that uses a margin $\kappa$ {\it a la} Gardner for simple perceptron learning. This method corresponds to the perceptron learning when $\kappa=0$, and to the Hebbian learning when $\kappa \to \infty$.…

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