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A recurrent neural network without chaos

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2016-12-20 v1 Computation and Language Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce an exceptionally simple gated recurrent neural network (RNN) that achieves performance comparable to well-known gated architectures, such as LSTMs and GRUs, on the word-level language modeling task. We prove that our model has simple, predicable and non-chaotic dynamics. This stands in stark contrast to more standard gated architectures, whose underlying dynamical systems exhibit chaotic behavior.

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@article{arxiv.1612.06212,
  title  = {A recurrent neural network without chaos},
  author = {Thomas Laurent and James von Brecht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.06212},
  year   = {2016}
}
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