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cs.NE2018

Continual Learning of Recurrent Neural Networks by Locally Aligning Distributed Representations

Alexander Ororbia, Ankur Mali, C. Lee Giles +1

Temporal models based on recurrent neural networks have proven to be quite powerful in a wide variety of applications. However, training these models often relies on back-propagati…

cs.CV2018

A Neural Temporal Model for Human Motion Prediction

Anand Gopalakrishnan, Ankur Mali, Dan Kifer +2

We propose novel neural temporal models for predicting and synthesizing human motion, achieving state-of-the-art in modeling long-term motion trajectories while being competitive w…

cs.NE2018

Biologically Motivated Algorithms for Propagating Local Target Representations

Alexander G. Ororbia, Ankur Mali

Finding biologically plausible alternatives to back-propagation of errors is a fundamentally important challenge in artificial neural network research. In this paper, we propose a…

cs.CV2018

Learned Neural Iterative Decoding for Lossy Image Compression Systems

Alexander G. Ororbia, Ankur Mali, Jian Wu +3

For lossy image compression systems, we develop an algorithm, iterative refinement, to improve the decoder's reconstruction compared to standard decoding techniques. Specifically,…

cs.LG2018

Conducting Credit Assignment by Aligning Local Representations

Alexander G. Ororbia, Ankur Mali, Daniel Kifer +1

Using back-propagation and its variants to train deep networks is often problematic for new users. Issues such as exploding gradients, vanishing gradients, and high sensitivity to…