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Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are a type of statistical model designed to handle sequential data. The model reads a sequence one symbol at a time. Each symbol is processed based on information collected from the previous symbols. With…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-18 Jared Ostmeyer , Lindsay Cowell

Modeling topics effectively in short texts, such as tweets and news snippets, is crucial to capturing rapidly evolving social trends. Existing topic models often struggle to accurately capture the underlying semantic patterns of short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Shuyu Chang , Rui Wang , Peng Ren , Qi Wang , Haiping Huang

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are powerful autoregressive sequence models, but when used to generate natural language their output tends to be overly generic, repetitive, and self-contradictory. We postulate that the objective function…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Ari Holtzman , Jan Buys , Maxwell Forbes , Antoine Bosselut , David Golub , Yejin Choi

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have led to breakthroughs in natural language processing and speech recognition, wherein hundreds of millions of people use such tools on a daily basis through smartphones, email servers and other avenues.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-12-02 Sun-Ting Tsai , En-Jui Kuo , Pratyush Tiwary

Recently, recurrent large language models (Recurrent LLMs) with linear computational complexity have re-emerged as efficient alternatives to self-attention-based LLMs (Self-Attention LLMs), which have quadratic complexity. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Kai Liu , Zhan Su , Peijie Dong , Fengran Mo , Jianfei Gao , ShaoTing Zhang , Kai Chen

Many scene text recognition approaches are based on purely visual information and ignore the semantic relation between scene and text. In this paper, we tackle this problem from natural language processing perspective to fill the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Ahmed Sabir , Francesc Moreno-Noguer , Lluís Padró

Recurrent neural networks have gained widespread use in modeling sequential data. Learning long-term dependencies using these models remains difficult though, due to exploding or vanishing gradients. In this paper, we draw connections…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-27 Bo Chang , Minmin Chen , Eldad Haber , Ed H. Chi

Documents exhibit sequential structure at multiple levels of abstraction (e.g., sentences, paragraphs, sections). These abstractions constitute a natural hierarchy for representing the context in which to infer the meaning of words and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Shalini Ghosh , Oriol Vinyals , Brian Strope , Scott Roy , Tom Dean , Larry Heck

Large language models face challenges in long-context question answering, where key evidence of a query may be dispersed across millions of tokens. Existing works equip large language models with a memory buffer that is dynamically updated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yaorui Shi , Yuxin Chen , Siyuan Wang , Sihang Li , Hengxing Cai , Qi Gu , Xiang Wang , An Zhang

Recursive neural networks (RNN) and their recently proposed extension recursive long short term memory networks (RLSTM) are models that compute representations for sentences, by recursively combining word embeddings according to an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Phong Le , Willem Zuidema

We propose Sentence Level Recurrent Topic Model (SLRTM), a new topic model that assumes the generation of each word within a sentence to depend on both the topic of the sentence and the whole history of its preceding words in the sentence.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Fei Tian , Bin Gao , Di He , Tie-Yan Liu

In this paper we address the question of how to render sequence-level networks better at handling structured input. We propose a machine reading simulator which processes text incrementally from left to right and performs shallow reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Jianpeng Cheng , Li Dong , Mirella Lapata

Recurrent neural networks are a powerful means in diverse applications. We show that, together with so-called conceptors, they also allow fast learning, in contrast to other deep learning methods. In addition, a relatively small number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Stefanie Krause , Oliver Otto , Frieder Stolzenburg

We describe a method for proactive information retrieval targeted at retrieving relevant information during a writing task. In our method, the current task and the needs of the user are estimated, and the potential next steps are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Petri Luukkonen , Markus Koskela , Patrik Floréen

The recurrent neural network and its variants have shown great success in processing sequences in recent years. However, this deep neural network has not aroused much attention in anomaly detection through predictively process monitoring.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiaqi Qiu , Yu Lin , Inez Zwetsloot

We propose a recurrent neural model that generates natural-language questions from documents, conditioned on answers. We show how to train the model using a combination of supervised and reinforcement learning. After teacher forcing for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Xingdi Yuan , Tong Wang , Caglar Gulcehre , Alessandro Sordoni , Philip Bachman , Sandeep Subramanian , Saizheng Zhang , Adam Trischler

Autoregressive Large Language Models (e.g., LLaMa, GPTs) are omnipresent achieving remarkable success in language understanding and generation. However, such impressive capability typically comes with a substantial model size, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ajay Jaiswal , Bodun Hu , Lu Yin , Yeonju Ro , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Aditya Akella

Large language models are strong sequence predictors, yet standard inference relies on immutable context histories. After making an error at generation step t, the model lacks an updatable memory mechanism that improves predictions for step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuxing Lu , J. Ben Tamo , Weichen Zhao , Nan Sun , Yishan Zhong , Wenqi Shi , Jinzhuo Wang , May D. Wang

Modern large-scale Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have achieved tremendous success on a wide range of downstream tasks. However, most of the LM pre-training objectives only focus on text reconstruction, but have not sought to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Liliang Ren , Zixuan Zhang , Han Wang , Clare R. Voss , Chengxiang Zhai , Heng Ji

State-of-the-art deep reading comprehension models are dominated by recurrent neural nets. Their sequential nature is a natural fit for language, but it also precludes parallelization within an instances and often becomes the bottleneck for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Felix Wu , Ni Lao , John Blitzer , Guandao Yang , Kilian Weinberger