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Recent studies of the computational power of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) reveal a hierarchy of RNN architectures, given real-time and finite-precision assumptions. Here we study auto-regressive Transformers with linearised attention,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Kazuki Irie , Róbert Csordás , Jürgen Schmidhuber

This paper introduces two recurrent neural network structures called Simple Gated Unit (SGU) and Deep Simple Gated Unit (DSGU), which are general structures for learning long term dependencies. Compared to traditional Long Short-Term Memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Yuan Gao , Dorota Glowacka

Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) is a recently-developed variation of the long short-term memory (LSTM) unit, both of which are types of recurrent neural network (RNN). Through empirical evidence, both models have been proven to be effective in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Abien Fred Agarap

We study the numerical and Boolean expressiveness of MPLang, a declarative language that captures the computation of graph neural networks (GNNs) through linear message passing and activation functions. We begin with A-MPLang, the fragment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Pablo Barceló , Floris Geerts , Matthias Lanzinger , Klara Pakhomenko , Jan Van den Bussche

We present a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) based model that combines the remembering ability of unitary RNNs with the ability of gated RNNs to effectively forget redundant/irrelevant information in its memory. We achieve this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Li Jing , Caglar Gulcehre , John Peurifoy , Yichen Shen , Max Tegmark , Marin Soljačić , Yoshua Bengio

We consider neural networks with rational activation functions. The choice of the nonlinear activation function in deep learning architectures is crucial and heavily impacts the performance of a neural network. We establish optimal bounds…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Nicolas Boullé , Yuji Nakatsukasa , Alex Townsend

Recurrent neural networks have flourished in many areas. Consequently, we can see new RNN cells being developed continuously, usually by creating or using gates in a new, original way. But what if we told you that gates in RNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ronalds Zakovskis , Andis Draguns , Eliza Gaile , Emils Ozolins , Karlis Freivalds

We address the efficiency issue for the construction of a deep graph neural network (GNN). The approach exploits the idea of representing each input graph as a fixed point of a dynamical system (implemented through a recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Claudio Gallicchio , Alessio Micheli

Deep neural network with rectified linear units (ReLU) is getting more and more popular recently. However, the derivatives of the function represented by a ReLU network are not continuous, which limit the usage of ReLU network to situations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Bo Li , Shanshan Tang , Haijun Yu

We explore the architecture of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) by studying the complexity of string sequences it is able to memorize. Symbolic sequences of different complexity are generated to simulate RNN training and study parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Roberto Cahuantzi , Xinye Chen , Stefan Güttel

Neural networks can learn to represent and manipulate numerical information, but they seldom generalize well outside of the range of numerical values encountered during training. To encourage more systematic numerical extrapolation, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Andrew Trask , Felix Hill , Scott Reed , Jack Rae , Chris Dyer , Phil Blunsom

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful dynamical models for data with complex temporal structure. However, training RNNs has traditionally proved challenging due to exploding or vanishing of gradients. RNN models such as LSTMs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Tankut Can , Kamesh Krishnamurthy , David J. Schwab

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been a long-standing candidate for processing of temporal sequence data, especially in memory-constrained systems that one may find in embedded edge computing environments. Recent advances in training…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Sebastian Billaudelle , Laura Kriener , Filippo Moro , Tristan Torchet , Melika Payvand

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been a prominent concept within artificial intelligence. They are inspired by Biological Neural Networks (BNNs) and provide an intuitive and abstract representation of how BNNs work. Derived from the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Stefano Nichele , Andreas Molund

Recent architectural developments have enabled recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to reach and even surpass the performance of Transformers on certain sequence modeling tasks. These modern RNNs feature a prominent design pattern: linear…

This review aims to conduct a comparative analysis of liquid neural networks (LNNs) and traditional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and their variants, such as long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) and gated recurrent units (GRUs). The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shilong Zong , Alex Bierly , Almuatazbellah Boker , Hoda Eldardiry

Rectified Linear Units (ReLU) have become the main model for the neural units in current deep learning systems. This choice has been originally suggested as a way to compensate for the so called vanishing gradient problem which can undercut…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-05-06 Carlo Baldassi , Enrico M. Malatesta , Riccardo Zecchina

We characterise the computational power of recurrent graph neural networks (GNNs) in terms of arithmetic circuits over the real numbers. Our networks are not restricted to aggregate-combine GNNs or other particular types. Generalising…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Timon Barlag , Vivian Holzapfel , Laura Strieker , Jonni Virtema , Heribert Vollmer

Despite their success deep neural networks (DNNs) are still largely considered as black boxes. The main issue is that the linear and non-linear operations are entangled in every layer, making it hard to interpret the hidden layer outputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Chandrashekar Lakshminarayanan , Amit Vikram Singh

How can local-search methods such as stochastic gradient descent (SGD) avoid bad local minima in training multi-layer neural networks? Why can they fit random labels even given non-convex and non-smooth architectures? Most existing theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li , Zhao Song