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Exposing the Functionalities of Neurons for Gated Recurrent Unit Based Sequence-to-Sequence Model

Neural and Evolutionary Computing 2023-03-28 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to report certain scientific discoveries about a Seq2Seq model. It is known that analyzing the behavior of RNN-based models at the neuron level is considered a more challenging task than analyzing a DNN or CNN models due to their recursive mechanism in nature. This paper aims to provide neuron-level analysis to explain why a vanilla GRU-based Seq2Seq model without attention can achieve token-positioning. We found four different types of neurons: storing, counting, triggering, and outputting and further uncover the mechanism for these neurons to work together in order to produce the right token in the right position.

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@article{arxiv.2303.15072,
  title  = {Exposing the Functionalities of Neurons for Gated Recurrent Unit Based Sequence-to-Sequence Model},
  author = {Yi-Ting Lee and Da-Yi Wu and Chih-Chun Yang and Shou-De Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.15072},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages (excluding reference), 10 figures

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