Predictive Coding

Ask about this topic

Overview

Predictive coding studies how systems can infer, learn, or compress information by predicting incoming data and correcting mismatches. In neuroscience, hierarchical Bayesian and free-energy models use precision-weighted prediction errors to explain perception and action; in machine learning, predictive coding networks use local updates, while equilibrium propagation, feedback pathways, and amortized inference aim to make training faster and deeper. Related predictive methods forecast future inputs or code residuals for tasks such as video, language, and data compression, with evaluations spanning CIFAR and ImageNet, time-series benchmarks, and alignment to visual-cortex responses. A central tension is whether local, biologically inspired computation can match backpropagation and scale to deep or long-range tasks without giving up efficiency or hardware simplicity.

Latest papers

CardsList

59 papers6 papers in the last four weeks, up 20% on the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding

    May 29, 2026Jeffrey Seely, Julian GouldBackpropagationPredictive Coding

    Sakana AI

  2. Supervised Training Rapidly Degrades Early Visual Cortex Alignment Across Biologically Plausible Learning Rules

    May 28, 2026Nils LeuteneggerNeural Representation GeometryPredictive Coding

    Independent Researcher, Switzerland

  3. Exploratory Experience Shapes the Geometry of Predictive Representations

    May 27, 2026Kseniia Shilova, Abdelrahman Sharafeldin, Advay Balakrishnan +1Computational Cognitive ModelingPredictive Coding

    School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 · College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332

  4. Motion-Compensated Weight Compression

    May 23, 2026Ismail LamaakalPredictive CodingWeight-Only Quantization

    Multidisciplinary Faculty of Nador · Mohammed Premier University · Oujda 60000, Morocco

  5. Ontology-constrained multi-LLM scoring of hypothesis support in the predictive processing literature

    May 23, 2026Hamed Nejat, Alexander Maier, Jesse Spencer-Smith +1Ontology-Guided Information ExtractionPredictive Coding

    Department of Psychology and Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University · Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University

  6. Closed-form predictive coding via hierarchical Gaussian filters

    May 19, 2026Aleksandrs Baskakovs, Sylvain Estebe, Kenneth Enevoldsen +3Predictive CodingVariational Inference

    Center for Humanities Computing Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark · Interacting Minds Center Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark

  7. Inter-LPCM: Learning-based Inter-Frame Predictive Coding for LiDAR Point Cloud Compression

    May 18, 2026Chang Sun, Hui Yuan, Shiqi Jiang +3Point Cloud CompressionPredictive Coding

    School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China · Key Laboratory of Machine Intelligence and System Control, Ministry of Education, Jinan 250061, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China +1

  8. Understanding Sample Efficiency in Predictive Coding

    May 12, 2026Gaspard Oliviers, Elene Lominadze, Rafal BogaczBackpropagationPredictive Coding

    Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom · MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Restorative Neural Dynamics, United Kingdom

  9. Emergent Communication for Co-constructed Emotion Between Embodied Agents via Collective Predictive Coding

    May 10, 2026Zehang Zhang, Nguyen Le Hoang, Tadahiro Taniguchi +1Computational Cognitive ModelingPredictive Coding

    Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, Toyonaka 560-8531, Japan · Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

  10. Dynamic Representational Synchrony through Collective Predictive Coding: A Computational Model of Parent-Infant Homeostatic Co-Regulation

    May 8, 2026Yushi Tsubamoto, Takato HoriiComputational Cognitive ModelingPredictive Coding

    Graduate School of Medicine The University of Osaka 565-0871, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka · Graduate School of Engineering Science The University of Osaka 560-0043, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka Osaka

  11. Online Generalised Predictive Coding

    May 4, 2026Mehran H. Z. Bazargani, Szymon Urbas, Adeel Razi +2Parameter EstimationLatent Dynamics Modeling

    Insight Research Ireland Centre, UCD, Dublin, Ireland. · UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics, UCD, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland. · Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. +5

  12. Video Generation with Predictive Latents

    May 4, 2026Yian Zhao, Feng Wang, Qiushan Guo +4Variational AutoencodersPredictive Coding

    ByteDance Seed · Tsinghua University · Peking University

  13. Cross-Entropy Is Load-Bearing: A Pre-Registered Scope Test of the K-Way Energy Probe on Bidirectional Predictive Coding

    Apr 23, 2026Jon-Paul CacioliPredictive CodingConfidence Estimation

    Independent Researcher, Melbourne, Australia

  14. Response time of lateral predictive coding and benefits of modular structures

    Apr 22, 2026Guanghui Cai, Zhen-Ye Huang, Weikang Wang +1Predictive CodingModular Neural Networks

    Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, ZhongGuanCun East Road 55, Beijing 100190, China · Westlake Institute for Advanced Study, Hangzhou 310024, China · Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and Department of Physics, School of Science, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310030, China +2

  15. Lossless Compression via Chained Lightweight Neural Predictors with Information Inheritance

    Apr 16, 2026Yuriy Kim, Evgeny BelyaevPredictive CodingLossless Data Compression

    ITMO University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

  16. DINO-Explorer: Active Underwater Discovery via Ego-Motion Compensated Semantic Predictive Coding

    Apr 14, 2026Yuhan Jin, Nayari Marie Lessa, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez +4Active Visual PerceptionUnderwater Robotics

    Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Bremen, Germany · Robotics Research Group, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany · Computing Department, SENAI CIMATEC, Salvador, Brazil

  17. K-Way Energy Probes for Metacognition Reduce to Softmax in Discriminative Predictive Coding Networks

    Apr 13, 2026Jon-Paul CacioliConfidence EstimationPredictive Coding

    Independent Researcher, Melbourne, Australia

  18. Sequential KV Cache Compression via Probabilistic Language Tries: Beyond the Per-Vector Shannon Limit

    Apr 10, 2026Gregory MagarshakKV-Cache CompressionMemory Compression

  19. Across the Levels of Analysis: Explaining Predictive Processing in Humans Requires More Than Machine-Estimated Probabilities

    Apr 10, 2026Sathvik Nair, Colin PhillipsComputational PsycholinguisticsPredictive Coding

    University of Maryland Department of Linguistics · University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies · Oxford University Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics

  20. LiZIP: An Auto-Regressive Compression Framework for LiDAR Point Clouds

    Mar 24, 2026Aditya Shibu, Kayvan Karim, Claudio ZitoPoint Cloud CompressionPredictive Coding

    MACS, Heriot Watt University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  21. Authority-Level Priors: An Under-Specified Constraint in Hierarchical Predictive Processing

    Mar 19, 2026Marcy PalejovaPredictive CodingActive Inference

    Anglia Ruskin University

  22. A Synthesizable RTL Implementation of Predictive Coding Networks

    Mar 18, 2026Timothy OhNeural Network Hardware AccelerationPredictive Coding

    University of California, Riverside

  23. LPC-SM: Local Predictive Coding and Sparse Memory for Long-Context Language Modeling

    Mar 12, 2026Keqin XieLong-Context Language ModelingAutoregressive Language Modeling

    Independent Researcher, Suzhou, China

  24. Predictive Coding Graphs are a Superset of Feedforward Neural Networks

    Mar 6, 2026Björn van ZwolPredictive CodingNeural Network Expressivity

    Department of Information & Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  25. Expectation and Acoustic Neural Network Representations Enhance Music Identification from Brain Activity

    Mar 3, 2026Shogo Noguchi, Taketo Akama, Tai Nakamura +2EEG DecodingPredictive Representation Learning

    Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

  26. Learning Long-Range Dependencies with Temporal Predictive Coding

    Feb 20, 2026Tom Potter, Oliver RhodesPredictive CodingRecurrent Neural Networks

    International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  27. Accelerated Predictive Coding Networks via Direct Kolen-Pollack Feedback Alignment

    Feb 17, 2026Davide Casnici, Martin Lefebvre, Justin Dauwels +1Predictive CodingDeep Learning Optimization

    Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

  28. Predicting upcoming visual features during eye movements yields scene representations aligned with human visual cortex

    Nov 16, 2025Sushrut Thorat, Adrien Doerig, Alexander Kroner +2Predictive CodingVisual Neuroscience

    Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, Osnabrück 49069, Germany. · Lossfunk, Bengaluru 560038, India. · Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität, Berlin 14195, Germany. +1

  29. Meta-Representational Predictive Coding: Neuroscience-Informed Self-Supervised Learning

    Mar 22, 2025Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston, Rajesh P. N. RaoSelf-Supervised LearningPredictive Coding

    Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, New York, USA · VERSES AI Research Lab +3