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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have reached striking performance in many natural language processing tasks. This has renewed interest in whether these generic sequence processing devices are inducing genuine linguistic knowledge. Nearly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Michael Hahn , Marco Baroni

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are capable of learning features and long term dependencies from sequential and time-series data. The RNNs have a stack of non-linear units where at least one connection between units forms a directed cycle.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Hojjat Salehinejad , Sharan Sankar , Joseph Barfett , Errol Colak , Shahrokh Valaee

The success of long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks in language processing is typically attributed to their ability to capture long-distance statistical regularities. Linguistic regularities are often sensitive to syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Tal Linzen , Emmanuel Dupoux , Yoav Goldberg

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have obtained excellent result in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, understanding and interpreting the source of this success remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose Recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Ke Tran , Arianna Bisazza , Christof Monz

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

The ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) to represent phonotactic generalizations derived from lexical learning remains an open question. This study (1) investigates the lexically-invariant generalization capacity of generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Bruno Ferenc Šegedin

Syntactic rules in natural language typically need to make reference to hierarchical sentence structure. However, the simple examples that language learners receive are often equally compatible with linear rules. Children consistently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-11 R. Thomas McCoy , Robert Frank , Tal Linzen

The design of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to accurately process sequential inputs with long-time dependencies is very challenging on account of the exploding and vanishing gradient problem. To overcome this, we propose a novel RNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 T. Konstantin Rusch , Siddhartha Mishra

The community is increasingly exploring linear RNNs (LRNNs) as language models, motivated by their expressive power and parallelizability. While prior work establishes the expressivity benefits of LRNNs over transformers, it is unclear what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 William Merrill , Hongjian Jiang , Yanhong Li , Anthony Lin , Ashish Sabharwal

Recent language models, especially those based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs), make it possible to generate natural language from a learned probability. Language generation has wide applications including machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Lili Mou , Rui Yan , Ge Li , Lu Zhang , Zhi Jin

In this paper, we study novel neural network structures to better model long term dependency in sequential data. We propose to use more memory units to keep track of more preceding states in recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which are all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Rohollah Soltani , Hui Jiang

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

Deep neural networks have shown recent promise in many language-related tasks such as the modeling of conversations. We extend RNN-based sequence to sequence models to capture the long range discourse across many turns of conversation. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-18 John M. Pierre , Mark Butler , Jacob Portnoff , Luis Aguilar

Popular solutions to Named Entity Recognition (NER) include conditional random fields, sequence-to-sequence models, or utilizing the question-answering framework. However, they are not suitable for nested and overlapping spans with large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Hagen Soltau , Izhak Shafran , Mingqiu Wang , Laurent El Shafey

Developing NLP models traditionally involves two stages - training and application. Retention of information acquired after training (at application time) is architecturally limited by the size of the model's context window (in the case of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Arseny Moskvichev , James A. Liu

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are widely used throughout neuroscience as models of local neural activity. Many properties of single RNNs are well characterized theoretically, but experimental neuroscience has moved in the direction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Leo Kozachkov , Michaela Ennis , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been successfully applied to various natural language processing (NLP) tasks and achieved better results than conventional methods. However, the lack of understanding of the mechanisms behind their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Yao Ming , Shaozu Cao , Ruixiang Zhang , Zhen Li , Yuanzhe Chen , Yangqiu Song , Huamin Qu

Recent work by Hewitt et al. (2020) provides an interpretation of the empirical success of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as language models (LMs). It shows that RNNs can efficiently represent bounded hierarchical structures that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Anej Svete , Robin Shing Moon Chan , Ryan Cotterell

Many current NLP systems are built from language models trained to optimize unsupervised objectives on large amounts of raw text. Under what conditions might such a procedure acquire meaning? Our systematic experiments with synthetic data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zhaofeng Wu , William Merrill , Hao Peng , Iz Beltagy , Noah A. Smith