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Not so simple machines: Cracking the code for materials that can learn

Obtaining the gradient of what's known as the loss function is an essential step to establish the backpropagation algorithm developed by University of Michigan researchers to train a material. The ...
Nature

Training of physical neural networks

Physical neural networks (PNNs) are a class of neural-like networks that make use of analogue physical systems to perform computations. Although at present confined to small-scale laboratory ...
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SEOULTECH researchers develop VFF-Net, a revolutionary alternative to backpropagation that transforms AI training

VFF-Net introduces three new methodologies: label-wise noise labelling (LWNL), cosine similarity-based contrastive loss (CSCL), and layer grouping (LG), addressing the challenges of applying a forward ...
Semiconductor Engineering

In Situ Backpropagation Strategy That Progressively Updates Neural Network Layers Directly in HW (TU Eindhoven)

A new technical paper titled “Hardware implementation of backpropagation using progressive gradient descent for in situ training of multilayer neural networks” was published by researchers at ...