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Recurrent neural networks are effective models to process sequences. However, they are unable to learn long-term dependencies because of their inherent sequential nature. As a solution, Vaswani et al. introduced the Transformer, a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quentin Fournier , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Daniel Aloise

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are very successful at solving challenging problems with sequential data. However, this observed efficiency is not yet entirely explained by theory. It is known that a certain class of multiplicative RNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Valentin Khrulkov , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Ivan Oseledets

Language models have emerged as a critical area of focus in artificial intelligence, particularly with the introduction of groundbreaking innovations like ChatGPT. Large-scale Transformer networks have quickly become the leading approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Wei Wang , Qing Li

The Recurrent Neural Networks and their variants have shown promising performances in sequence modeling tasks such as Natural Language Processing. These models, however, turn out to be impractical and difficult to train when exposed to very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Yinchong Yang , Denis Krompass , Volker Tresp

Transformers have emerged as the cornerstone of state-of-the-art natural language processing models, showcasing exceptional performance across a wide range of AI applications. However, the memory demands posed by the self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hao Liu , Pieter Abbeel

Many machine learning tasks can be expressed as the transformation---or \emph{transduction}---of input sequences into output sequences: speech recognition, machine translation, protein secondary structure prediction and text-to-speech to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-16 Alex Graves

Despite the widespread adoption of Transformer models for NLP tasks, the expressive power of these models is not well-understood. In this paper, we establish that Transformer models are universal approximators of continuous permutation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Chulhee Yun , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank J. Reddi , Sanjiv Kumar

Recurrent neural networks are a powerful tool for modeling sequential data, but the dependence of each timestep's computation on the previous timestep's output limits parallelism and makes RNNs unwieldy for very long sequences. We introduce…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-22 James Bradbury , Stephen Merity , Caiming Xiong , Richard Socher

Solid results from Transformers have made them prevailing architectures in various natural language and vision tasks. As a default component in Transformers, Layer Normalization (LN) normalizes activations within each token to boost the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Qiming Yang , Kai Zhang , Chaoxiang Lan , Zhi Yang , Zheyang Li , Wenming Tan , Jun Xiao , Shiliang Pu

Recurrent Neural Network Transducer (RNN-T), like most end-to-end speech recognition model architectures, has an implicit neural network language model (NNLM) and cannot easily leverage unpaired text data during training. Previous work has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Suyoun Kim , Yuan Shangguan , Jay Mahadeokar , Antoine Bruguier , Christian Fuegen , Michael L. Seltzer , Duc Le

Neural networks with Auto-regressive structures, such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), have become the most appealing structures for acoustic modeling of parametric text to speech synthesis (TTS) in ecent studies. Despite the prominent…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Dabiao Ma , Zhiba Su , Yuhao Lu , Wenxuan Wang , Zhen Li

The introduction of Transformers in 2017 reshaped the landscape of deep learning. Originally proposed for sequence modelling, Transformers have since achieved widespread success across various domains. However, the scalability limitations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Leo Feng , Frederick Tung , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Yoshua Bengio , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi

The proliferation of large-scale and structurally complex data has spurred the integration of machine learning methods into statistical modeling. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), a foundational class of models for time-dependent data, can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-05 Yuxi Cai , Lan Li , Feiqing Huang , Guodong Li

Brain motor decoding aims to interpret and translate neural activity into behaviors. Decoding models should generalize across variations, such as recordings from different brain sites, experimental sessions, behavior types, and subjects,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hao Fang , Ryan A. Canfield , Tomohiro Ouchi , Beatrice Macagno , Eli Shlizerman , Amy L. Orsborn

As more deep learning models are being applied in real-world applications, there is a growing need for modeling and learning the representations of neural networks themselves. An efficient representation can be used to predict target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yun Yi , Haokui Zhang , Rong Xiao , Nannan Wang , Xiaoyu Wang

The advent of Transformers marked a significant breakthrough in sequence modelling, providing a highly performant architecture capable of leveraging GPU parallelism. However, Transformers are computationally expensive at inference time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Leo Feng , Frederick Tung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Yoshua Bengio , Greg Mori

Despite the remarkable practical success of transformer-based language models, recent work has raised concerns about their ability to perform state tracking. In particular, a growing body of literature has shown this limitation primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 M. Reza Ebrahimi , Michaël Defferrard , Sunny Panchal , Roland Memisevic

In this paper, we have used Recurrent Neural Networks to capture and model human motion data and generate motions by prediction of the next immediate data point at each time-step. Our RNN is armed with recently proposed Gated Recurrent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Mohammad Pezeshki

We study length generalization in sequence models on a composite problem involving both state tracking and associative recall. Prior work finds that recurrent networks handle state tracking well but struggle with recall, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Buu Phan , Reza Ebrahimi , Sanjay Haresh , Roland Memisevic

Theoretical efforts to prove advantages of Transformers in comparison with classical architectures such as feedforward and recurrent neural networks have mostly focused on representational power. In this work, we take an alternative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-17 Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Clayton Sanford , Denny Wu , Murat A. Erdogdu