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cs.LGcs.AIEmpiricalComprehensiveRecentJun 4, 2026

Pretraining Recurrent Networks without Recurrence

Akarsh Kumar, Phillip Isola

This paper proposes Supervised Memory Training (SMT), a method for training nonlinear RNNs that sidesteps recurrent credit propagation entirely.

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cs.LGstat.MLTheoreticalRecentJun 9, 2026

Limitations of Learning Tanh Neural Networks with Finite Precision

Philipp Grohs, Matěj Trödler

This paper investigates limitations of learning tanh neural networks under finite-precision computations and Lp accuracy guarantees.

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cs.LGcs.AIEmpiricalRecentJun 4, 2026

PC Layer: Polynomial Weight Preconditioning for Improving LLM Pre-Training

Senmiao Wang, Tiantian Fang, Haoran Zhang, Yushun Zhang +3 more

This paper proposes a preconditioning layer for stable weight conditioning in LLM training.

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cs.NEEmpiricalRecentJun 28, 2026

Supervised Hebbian learning in Deep Counterstream Associative Networks

Andreas Knoblauch

A new error backpropagation method called supervised counterstream learning is proposed for deep associative networks, which only requires recognition of errors during training and backpropagates corr…

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cs.LGcs.AIcs.DSEmpiricalRecentJun 19, 2026

Breaking chains with trees: Deep learning with $\mathcal{O}(\log N)$ parallel time complexity

Neeraj Mohan Sushma, Aditya Nagarsekar, Cabrel Teguemne Fokam, Robin Schiewer +3 more

This paper proposes Hierarchical Block-Local Learning (HBLL), a framework for training deep neural networks without full end-to-end backpropagation, achieving $\mathcal{O}(\log N)$ parallel time compl…

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cs.NENEWEmpiricalJul 29, 2026

Reconstructing Backpropagation from Forward Fluctuations in Noise-modulated Neural Networks

Shuhei Ikemoto

This paper presents a Noise-modulated Neural Network (NNN) that learns and infers with noise, reconstructing backpropagation from forward-pass statistics alone.

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q-bio.NCcs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

Misalignment Between Backpropagation and the Hierarchy of Brain Responses to Images

Joséphine Raugel, Maximilian Seitzer, Marc Szafraniec, Huy V. Vo +5 more

While backpropagated gradients can predict human brain activity in the visual cortex, their spatial and temporal organization fundamentally diverges from the expected patterns of a biologically plausi…

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cs.NEEmpiricalRecentJun 12, 2026

A Programmer's Guide to Cascaded Adaptive Combiners: Online Learning by Biologically Accurate Models of Multilayer Neuron Networks

Martin Nilsson, Denis Kleyko

This paper introduces a mechanistic neuronal network model for multilayer learning, offering biological insights and an alternative to backpropagation.

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cs.LGstat.MLEmpiricalRecentJul 21, 2026

Elicitation without Backpropagation: Steering Model Behavior by Optimizing the Latent Posterior

Garrett Baker, Vinayak Pathak, Daniel Murfet, Susan Wei

Introduces Posterior Prefix Tuning (PPT) for eliciting high-utility continuations from Bayes-filtered transformers using a latent posterior model.

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cs.LGcs.NEEmpiricalRecentJun 30, 2026

Diffusing Blame: Task-Dependent Credit Assignment in Biologically Plausible Dual-Stream Networks

Yutaro Yamada, Luca Grillotti, Rujikorn Charakorn, Sebastian Risi +2 more

This paper introduces modulo error routing to extend Error Diffusion beyond binary classification and achieves high performance on MNIST and CIFAR-10 under Dale's principle.

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cs.DCcs.LGEmpiricalRecentJun 29, 2026

GPU Parallelization Strategies for Forward and Backward Propagation in Shallow Neural Networks: A CUDA-Based Comparative Study

Rania Zitouni, Nadine Bousdjira, Sarah Hasnaoui, Amel Sadoun +1 more

This paper compares and optimizes CUDA strategies for a shallow neural network, achieving a 1.41x speedup on a large dataset.

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cs.LGmath.STstat.MLTheoreticalRecentJul 26, 2026

A Statistical Difference between Single-Layer Learning and Hierarchical Learning in Wide Neural Networks

Sumio Watanabe

This paper compares two theoretical frameworks for hierarchical neural networks with a finite but large number of hidden units and shows that training input-to-hidden weights reduces generalization er…

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math.AGcs.NETheoreticalRecentJul 19, 2026

Expressivity of Shallow Neural Networks Over Finite Fields

Maksym Zubkov, Carol Wu, Shiwei Yang, Param Mody +1 more

This paper studies the expressivity of shallow polynomial neural networks with monomial activation functions over finite fields, quantifying it by the cardinality of the neuromanifold and deriving low…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

LLMs Without Deep Neural Networks: New Architecture, Benefits and Case Study

Vincent Granville

The paper introduces a novel, non-deep neural network architecture that achieves the performance of LLMs by finding the global optimum of the loss function in a single, closed-form iteration, eliminat…

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math.STstat.MEstat.MLTheoreticalRecentJul 23, 2026

Optimal use of a black-box learner in semiparametric estimation

Yihong Gu

This paper proposes a novel estimator for the target linear coefficient in a partial linear model with black-box nuisance estimation and establishes its unimprovable error rate.

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cs.CVcs.LGEmpiricalRecentJun 30, 2026

Automated Background Swapping for Robustness against Spurious Backgrounds

Cesar Roder, Kajetan Schweighofer

This paper introduces AutoBackSwap, a method to reduce reliance of classifiers on spurious backgrounds in image classification tasks using a secondary network and infilling.

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

The Little Book of Generative AI Foundations: An Intuitive Mathematical Primer

Tianhua Chen

This book provides a compact, derivation-oriented mathematical primer that connects major families of generative AI models, showing their underlying structural relationships.

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eess.SPcs.AIcs.LGRecentMay 28, 2026

SpikeWFM: Spiking-Aided Wireless Foundation Model for Robust Channel Prediction

Liwen Jing, Yisha Lu, Tingting Yang, Li Sun +4 more

The paper introduces SpikeWFM, a novel hybrid architecture combining spiking neural networks (SNNs) and transformers, which significantly improves the robustness and accuracy of wireless foundation mo…

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cs.CCcs.LGcs.LORecentMay 28, 2026

The Complexity of Verifying Feedforward Neural Networks in Quantised Settings

Eric Alsmann, Martin Lange, Marco Sälzer

This paper analyzes the computational complexity of verifying feedforward neural networks when their weights are restricted to finite-width arithmetic, finding that verification remains NP-complete fo…

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