Exploring the Performance of Perforated Backpropagation through Further Experiments

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Autores principales: Brenner, Rorry, Davis, Evan, Chaudhari, Rushi, Morse, Rowan, Chen, Jingyao, Liu, Xirui, You, Zhaoyi, Itti, Laurent
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Publicado: 2025
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author Brenner, Rorry
Davis, Evan
Chaudhari, Rushi
Morse, Rowan
Chen, Jingyao
Liu, Xirui
You, Zhaoyi
Itti, Laurent
author_facet Brenner, Rorry
Davis, Evan
Chaudhari, Rushi
Morse, Rowan
Chen, Jingyao
Liu, Xirui
You, Zhaoyi
Itti, Laurent
contents Perforated Backpropagation is a neural network optimization technique based on modern understanding of the computational importance of dendrites within biological neurons. This paper explores further experiments from the original publication, generated from a hackathon held at the Carnegie Mellon Swartz Center in February 2025. Students and local Pittsburgh ML practitioners were brought together to experiment with the Perforated Backpropagation algorithm on the datasets and models which they were using for their projects. Results showed that the system could enhance their projects, with up to 90% model compression without negative impact on accuracy, or up to 16% increased accuracy of their original models.
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spellingShingle Exploring the Performance of Perforated Backpropagation through Further Experiments
Brenner, Rorry
Davis, Evan
Chaudhari, Rushi
Morse, Rowan
Chen, Jingyao
Liu, Xirui
You, Zhaoyi
Itti, Laurent
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Perforated Backpropagation is a neural network optimization technique based on modern understanding of the computational importance of dendrites within biological neurons. This paper explores further experiments from the original publication, generated from a hackathon held at the Carnegie Mellon Swartz Center in February 2025. Students and local Pittsburgh ML practitioners were brought together to experiment with the Perforated Backpropagation algorithm on the datasets and models which they were using for their projects. Results showed that the system could enhance their projects, with up to 90% model compression without negative impact on accuracy, or up to 16% increased accuracy of their original models.
title Exploring the Performance of Perforated Backpropagation through Further Experiments
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00356