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Memory-augmented neural networks (MANNs) have been shown to outperform other recurrent neural network architectures on a series of artificial sequence learning tasks, yet they have had limited application to real-world tasks. We evaluate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Mark Collier , Joeran Beel

In recent years, memory-augmented neural networks(MANNs) have shown promising power to enhance the memory ability of neural networks for sequential processing tasks. However, previous MANNs suffer from complex memory addressing mechanism,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Zhangheng Li , Jia-Xing Zhong , Jingjia Huang , Tao Zhang , Thomas Li , Ge Li

Multiple extensions of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been proposed recently to address the difficulty of storing information over long time periods. In this paper, we experiment with the capacity of Neural Turing Machines (NTMs) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Tristan Deleu , Joseph Dureau

We are proposing an extension of the recursive neural network that makes use of a variant of the long short-term memory architecture. The extension allows information low in parse trees to be stored in a memory register (the `memory cell')…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Phong Le , Willem Zuidema

Memory is fundamental to intelligence, enabling learning, reasoning, and adaptability across biological and artificial systems. While Transformer architectures excel at sequence modeling, they face critical limitations in long-range context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Parsa Omidi , Xingshuai Huang , Axel Laborieux , Bahareh Nikpour , Tianyu Shi , Armaghan Eshaghi

In this paper, we propose a recurrent neural network (RNN) with residual attention (RRA) to learn long-range dependencies from sequential data. We propose to add residual connections across timesteps to RNN, which explicitly enhances the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Cheng Wang

Despite recent advances in training recurrent neural networks (RNNs), capturing long-term dependencies in sequences remains a fundamental challenge. Most approaches use backpropagation through time (BPTT), which is difficult to scale to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Trieu H. Trinh , Andrew M. Dai , Minh-Thang Luong , Quoc V. Le

Neural architectures such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Transformers, and State-Space Models have shown great success in handling sequential data by learning temporal dependencies. Decision Trees (DTs), on the other hand, remain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Sascha Marton , Moritz Schneider

Neural Memory Networks (NMNs) have received increased attention in recent years compared to deep architectures that use a constrained memory. Despite their new appeal, the success of NMNs hinges on the ability of the gradient-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tharindu Fernando , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

The advantage of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in learning dependencies between time-series data has distinguished RNNs from other deep learning models. Recently, many advances are proposed in this emerging field. However, there is a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Hojjat Salehinejad

Neural networks powered with external memory simulate computer behaviors. These models, which use the memory to store data for a neural controller, can learn algorithms and other complex tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new memory to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Hung Le , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

The abstraction tasks are challenging for multi- modal sequences as they require a deeper semantic understanding and a novel text generation for the data. Although the recurrent neural networks (RNN) can be used to model the context of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Junpei Zhong , Angelo Cangelosi , Tetsuya Ogata

Learning long-term dependencies is a key long-standing challenge of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Hierarchical recurrent neural networks (HRNNs) have been considered a promising approach as long-term dependencies are resolved through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Asier Mujika , Felix Weissenberger , Angelika Steger

Reason and inference require process as well as memory skills by humans. Neural networks are able to process tasks like image recognition (better than humans) but in memory aspects are still limited (by attention mechanism, size). Recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Amit Sahu

Continual learning, the ability of a model to adapt to an ongoing sequence of tasks without forgetting earlier ones, is a central goal of artificial intelligence. To better understand its underlying mechanisms, we study the limitations of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Hossein Taheri , Avishek Ghosh , Arya Mazumdar

We introduce a novel class of untrained Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) within the Reservoir Computing (RC) paradigm, called Residual Reservoir Memory Networks (ResRMNs). ResRMN combines a linear memory reservoir with a non-linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Matteo Pinna , Andrea Ceni , Claudio Gallicchio

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and self-attention are both widely used sequence-mixing layers that maintain an internal memory. However, this memory is constructed using two orthogonal mechanisms: RNNs compress the entire past into a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Leon Lufkin , Tomás Figliolia , Beren Millidge , Kamesh Krishnamurthy

Attention and self-attention mechanisms, are now central to state-of-the-art deep learning on sequential tasks. However, most recent progress hinges on heuristic approaches with limited understanding of attention's role in model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Giancarlo Kerg , Bhargav Kanuparthi , Anirudh Goyal , Kyle Goyette , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lajoie

Retrieval-augmented models couple parametric predictors with non-parametric memories, but their use in streaming supervised learning with concept drift is not well understood. We study online classification in non-stationary environments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wenzhang Du

Transformers have been established as the de-facto backbones for most recent advances in sequence modeling, mainly due to their growing memory capacity that scales with the context length. While plausible for retrieval tasks, it causes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ali Behrouz , Zeman Li , Yuan Deng , Peilin Zhong , Meisam Razaviyayn , Vahab Mirrokni