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Reservoir memory machines

Machine Learning 2020-03-11 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

In recent years, Neural Turing Machines have gathered attention by joining the flexibility of neural networks with the computational capabilities of Turing machines. However, Neural Turing Machines are notoriously hard to train, which limits their applicability. We propose reservoir memory machines, which are still able to solve some of the benchmark tests for Neural Turing Machines, but are much faster to train, requiring only an alignment algorithm and linear regression. Our model can also be seen as an extension of echo state networks with an external memory, enabling arbitrarily long storage without interference.

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@article{arxiv.2003.04793,
  title  = {Reservoir memory machines},
  author = {Benjamin Paassen and Alexander Schulz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.04793},
  year   = {2020}
}
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