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We present an architecture which lets us train deep, directed generative models with many layers of latent variables. We include deterministic paths between all latent variables and the generated output, and provide a richer set of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Philip Bachman

Humans solving algorithmic (or) reasoning problems typically exhibit solution times that grow as a function of problem difficulty. Adaptive recurrent neural networks have been shown to exhibit this property for various language-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Vijay Veerabadran , Srinivas Ravishankar , Yuan Tang , Ritik Raina , Virginia R. de Sa

The current paper proposes a novel predictive coding type neural network model, the predictive multiple spatio-temporal scales recurrent neural network (P-MSTRNN). The P-MSTRNN learns to predict visually perceived human whole-body cyclic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Minkyu Choi , Jun Tani

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been proven to be effective in modeling sequential data and they have been applied to boost a variety of tasks such as document classification, speech recognition and machine translation. Most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Zhiwei Wang , Yao Ma , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

One of the fundamental principles of contemporary linguistics states that language processing requires the ability to extract recursively nested tree structures. However, it remains unclear whether and how this code could be implemented in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yair Lakretz , Théo Desbordes , Jean-Rémi King , Benoît Crabbé , Maxime Oquab , Stanislas Dehaene

Unsupervised learning aims at the discovery of hidden structure that drives the observations in the real world. It is essential for success in modern machine learning. Latent variable models are versatile in unsupervised learning and have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Furong Huang

Active Feature Acquisition is an instance-wise, sequential decision making problem. The aim is to dynamically select which feature to measure based on current observations, independently for each test instance. Common approaches either use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Alexander Norcliffe , Changhee Lee , Fergus Imrie , Mihaela van der Schaar , Pietro Lio

Recent work has shown that recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can implicitly capture and exploit hierarchical information when trained to solve common natural language processing tasks such as language modeling (Linzen et al., 2016) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Ke Tran , Arianna Bisazza , Christof Monz

Recurrent neural network grammars (RNNG) are generative models of language which jointly model syntax and surface structure by incrementally generating a syntax tree and sentence in a top-down, left-to-right order. Supervised RNNGs achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Yoon Kim , Alexander M. Rush , Lei Yu , Adhiguna Kuncoro , Chris Dyer , Gábor Melis

Many neural networks exhibit stability in their activation patterns over time in response to inputs from sensors operating under real-world conditions. By capitalizing on this property of natural signals, we propose a Recurrent Neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Daniel Neil , Jun Haeng Lee , Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

In recent studies, linear recurrent neural networks (LRNNs) have achieved Transformer-level performance in natural language and long-range modeling, while offering rapid parallel training and constant inference cost. With the resurgence of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ting-Han Fan , Ta-Chung Chi , Alexander I. Rudnicky

This paper presents the recurrent estimation of distributions (RED) for modeling real-valued data in a semiparametric fashion. RED models make two novel uses of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for density estimation of general real-valued…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Junier B. Oliva , Kumar Avinava Dubey , Barnabas Poczos , Eric Xing , Jeff Schneider

Processing sequential data of variable length is a major challenge in a wide range of applications, such as speech recognition, language modeling, generative image modeling and machine translation. Here, we address this challenge by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Asier Mujika , Florian Meier , Angelika Steger

With the rapid development of natural language processing technologies, more and more text steganographic methods based on automatic text generation technology have appeared in recent years. These models use the powerful self-learning and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Zhongliang Yang , Ke Wang , Jian Li , Yongfeng Huang , Yu-Jin Zhang

In this work, we analyze the capabilities and practical limitations of neural networks (NNs) for sequence-based signal processing which can be seen as an omnipresent property in almost any modern communication systems. In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Daniel Tandler , Sebastian Dörner , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

Recent research shows end-to-end ASR systems can recognize overlapped speech from multiple speakers. However, all published works have assumed no latency constraints during inference, which does not hold for most voice assistant…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Ilya Sklyar , Anna Piunova , Yulan Liu

Computational models of vision have traditionally been developed in a bottom-up fashion, by hierarchically composing a series of straightforward operations - i.e. convolution and pooling - with the aim of emulating simple and complex cells…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Simone Azeglio , Simone Poetto , Luca Savant Aira , Marco Nurisso

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), which are a powerful scheme for modeling temporal and sequential data need to capture long-term dependencies on datasets and represent them in hidden layers with a powerful model to capture more information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Ruli Manurung , Mirna Adriani , Satoshi Nakamura

Representation learning over graph structured data has been mostly studied in static graph settings while efforts for modeling dynamic graphs are still scant. In this paper, we develop a novel hierarchical variational model that introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Arman Hasanzadeh , Nick Duffield , Krishna R Narayanan , Mingyuan Zhou , Xiaoning Qian

Sparse neural networks have been widely applied to reduce the computational demands of training and deploying over-parameterized deep neural networks. For inference acceleration, methods that discover a sparse network from a pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Shiwei Liu , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Yulong Pei , Mykola Pechenizkiy