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most citedGradients without Backpropagation

20 citations · 32 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG202220 cited

Gradients without Backpropagation

Atılım Güneş Baydin, Barak A. Pearlmutter, Don Syme +2

Using backpropagation to compute gradients of objective functions for optimization has remained a mainstay of machine learning. Backpropagation, or reverse-mode differentiation, is…

cs.LG2022

Exploration with Multi-Sample Target Values for Distributional Reinforcement Learning

Michael Teng, Michiel van de Panne, Frank Wood

Distributional reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn a value-network that predicts the full distribution of the returns for a given state, often modeled via a quantile-based cr…

cs.LG20211 cited

q-Paths: Generalizing the Geometric Annealing Path using Power Means

Vaden Masrani, Rob Brekelmans, Thang Bui +4

Many common machine learning methods involve the geometric annealing path, a sequence of intermediate densities between two distributions of interest constructed using the geometri…

stat.ML20218 cited

Differentiable Particle Filtering without Modifying the Forward Pass

Adam Ścibior, Frank Wood

Particle filters are not compatible with automatic differentiation due to the presence of discrete resampling steps. While known estimators for the score function, based on Fisher'…

cs.RO2019

Safer End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Conditional Imitation Learning and Command Augmentation

Renhao Wang, Adam Scibior, Frank Wood

Imitation learning is a promising approach to end-to-end training of autonomous vehicle controllers. Typically the driving process with such approaches is entirely automatic and bl…

q-bio.NC2019

The Virtual Patch Clamp: Imputing C. elegans Membrane Potentials from Calcium Imaging

Andrew Warrington, Arthur Spencer, Frank Wood

We develop a stochastic whole-brain and body simulator of the nematode roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and show that it is sufficiently regularizing to allow imputati…