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The use of future contextual information is typically shown to be helpful for acoustic modeling. However, for the recurrent neural network (RNN), it's not so easy to model the future temporal context effectively, meanwhile keep lower model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Jie Li , Xiaorui Wang , Yuanyuan Zhao , Yan Li

Transformer-based models have gained significant traction in sequential recommender systems (SRSs) for their ability to capture user-item interactions effectively. However, these models often suffer from high computational costs and slow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sheng Zhang , Maolin Wang , Wanyu Wang , Jingtong Gao , Xiangyu Zhao , Yu Yang , Xuetao Wei , Zitao Liu , Tong Xu

Many multi-source localization and tracking models based on neural networks use one or several recurrent layers at their final stages to track the movement of the sources. Conventional recurrent neural networks (RNNs), such as the long…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 David Diaz-Guerra , Archontis Politis , Antonio Miguel , Jose R. Beltran , Tuomas Virtanen

This paper introduces a new Dynamic Gated Recurrent Neural Network (DG-RNN) for compute-efficient speech enhancement models running on resource-constrained hardware platforms. It leverages the slow evolution characteristic of RNN hidden…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Longbiao Cheng , Ashutosh Pandey , Buye Xu , Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

A main theoretical interest in biology and physics is to identify the nonlinear dynamical system (DS) that generated observed time series. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are, in principle, powerful enough to approximate any underlying DS,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Dominik Schmidt , Georgia Koppe , Zahra Monfared , Max Beutelspacher , Daniel Durstewitz

This paper proposes to generalize the variational recurrent neural network (RNN) with variational inference (VI)-based dropout regularization employed for the long short-term memory (LSTM) cells to more advanced RNN architectures like gated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Jun Qi , Xu Liu , Javier Tejedor

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) play a major role in the field of sequential learning, and have outperformed traditional algorithms on many benchmarks. Training deep RNNs still remains a challenge, and most of the state-of-the-art models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-24 Ron Shoham , Haim Permuter

Parallelizing Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) networks is a challenging task, as the training procedure of GRU is inherently sequential. Prior efforts to parallelize GRU have largely focused on conventional parallelization strategies such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Gordon Euhyun Moon , Eric C. Cyr

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) hold immense potential for computations due to their Turing completeness and sequential processing capabilities, yet existing methods for their training encounter efficiency challenges. Backpropagation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Jesus Garcia Fernandez , Sander Keemink , Marcel van Gerven

In recent years, using orthogonal matrices has been shown to be a promising approach in improving Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with training, stability, and convergence, particularly, to control gradients. While Gated Recurrent Unit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Edison Mucllari , Vasily Zadorozhnyy , Cole Pospisil , Duc Nguyen , Qiang Ye

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) continue to show outstanding performance in sequence modeling tasks. However, training RNNs on long sequences often face challenges like slow inference, vanishing gradients and difficulty in capturing long…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Victor Campos , Brendan Jou , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , Jordi Torres , Shih-Fu Chang

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTM), and Memory Networks which contain memory are popularly used to learn patterns in sequential data. Sequential data has long sequences that hold relationships. RNN can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Anupiya Nugaliyadde , Kok Wai Wong , Ferdous Sohel , Hong Xie

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have recently demonstrated strong performance and faster inference than Transformers at comparable parameter budgets. However, the recursive gradient computation with the backpropagation through time (or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Paul Caillon , Erwan Fagnou , Alexandre Allauzen

Neural networks are becoming increasingly better at tasks that involve classifying and recognizing images. At the same time techniques intended to explain the network output have been proposed. One such technique is the Gradient-based Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mirtha Lucas , Miguel Lerma , Jacob Furst , Daniela Raicu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has revolutionized computer vision, but training very deep networks has been challenging due to the vanishing gradient problem. This paper explores Residual Networks (ResNet), introduced by He et al.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xingyu Liu , Kun Ming Goh

It is a known fact that training recurrent neural networks for tasks that have long term dependencies is challenging. One of the main reasons is the vanishing or exploding gradient problem, which prevents gradient information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Jiong Zhang , Yibo Lin , Zhao Song , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Recently, recurrent neural networks have become state-of-the-art in acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition. The long short-term memory (LSTM) units are the most popular ones. However, alternative units like gated recurrent unit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-18 Jan Vanek , Josef Michalek , Jan Zelinka , Josef Psutka

We study the classification of animal behavior using accelerometry data through various recurrent neural network (RNN) models. We evaluate the classification performance and complexity of the considered models, which feature long short-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Liang Wang , Reza Arablouei , Flavio A. P. Alvarenga , Greg J. Bishop-Hurley