Backpropagation (BP) dominates deep learning training, but its reliance on gradients brings inherent troubles -- vanishing and exploding gradients. The pursuit of gradient-free methods has long been a goal in the field of artificial intelligence.
arXiv:2606. 09928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm offers a biologically inspired alternative to backpropagation by replacing gradient-based credit assignment with local, forward-only objectives.
By Mohammadnavid Ghader, Saeed Reza Kheradpisheh, Bahar Farahani, Mahmood Fazlali
Over the past decade, deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success on complex machine-learning tasks, yet the theoretical foundations of their performance remain incomplete. From a statistical viewpoint, a natural question is: can DNNs attain feature-learning and prediction consistency comparable to that of classical models?
arXiv:2607. 06151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generalization remains a pivotal challenge in deep learning, where traditional optimizers like Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) often converge to sharp minima, leading to overfitting and reduced performance on unseen data.
By Yao Fu, Chunxia Zhang, Junmin Liu, Yihang Jin, Haishan Ye, Yuanao Yang
arXiv:2106. 06998v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training convolutional neural networks at scale demands substantial memory, largely because intermediate activations must be stored for backpropagation.
By Anirudh Thatipelli, Jeffrey Sam, Mathias Louboutin, Ali Siahkoohi, Rongrong Wang, Felix J. Herrmann
arXiv:2606. 06764v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress has been made in understanding the statistical generalization performance of gradient descent methods for overparameterized neural networks within the neural tangent kernel (NTK) regime.
By Junyu Zhou, Puyu Wang, Yunwen Lei, Yiming Ying, Ding-Xuan Zhou