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Sequence prediction and classification are ubiquitous and challenging problems in machine learning that can require identifying complex dependencies between temporally distant inputs. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have the ability, in…

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Understanding the internal dynamics of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) is crucial for advancing their interpretability and improving their design. This study introduces an innovative information-theoretic method to identify and analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Arend Hintze , Asadullah Najam , Jory Schossau

The Linear Representation Hypothesis (LRH) states that neural networks learn to encode concepts as directions in activation space, and a strong version of the LRH states that models learn only such encodings. In this paper, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Róbert Csordás , Christopher Potts , Christopher D. Manning , Atticus Geiger

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) has been successfully applied in many sequence learning problems. Such as handwriting recognition, image description, natural language processing and video motion analysis. After years of development,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Guoqiang Zhong , Guohua Yue , Xiao Ling

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are theoretically Turing-complete and established themselves as a dominant model for language processing. Yet, there still remains an uncertainty regarding their language learning capabilities. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Mirac Suzgun , Yonatan Belinkov , Stuart M. Shieber

Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

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

Recommendations can greatly benefit from good representations of the user state at recommendation time. Recent approaches that leverage Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for session-based recommendations have shown that Deep Learning models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Elena Smirnova , Flavian Vasile

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) such as long short-term memory and gated recurrent units are pivotal building blocks across a broad spectrum of sequence modeling problems. This paper proposes a recurrently controlled recurrent network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yi Tay , Luu Anh Tuan , Siu Cheung Hui

The effectiveness of recurrent neural networks can be largely influenced by their ability to store into their dynamical memory information extracted from input sequences at different frequencies and timescales. Such a feature can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Antonio Carta , Alessandro Sperduti , Davide Bacciu

We present a framework for analyzing what the state in RNNs remembers from its input embeddings. Our approach is inspired by backpropagation, in the sense that we compute the gradients of the states with respect to the input embeddings. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Lyan Verwimp , Hugo Van hamme , Vincent Renkens , Patrick Wambacq

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in the brain and in silico excel at solving tasks with intricate temporal dependencies. Long timescales required for solving such tasks can arise from properties of individual neurons (single-neuron…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Sina Khajehabdollahi , Roxana Zeraati , Emmanouil Giannakakis , Tim Jakob Schäfer , Georg Martius , Anna Levina

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

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 recurrent neural network (RNN) is appropriate for dealing with temporal sequences. In this paper, we present a deep RNN with new features and apply it for online handwritten Chinese character recognition. Compared with the existing RNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Haiqing Ren , Weiqiang Wang

Recurrent neural networks are powerful models for processing sequential data, but they are generally plagued by vanishing and exploding gradient problems. Unitary recurrent neural networks (uRNNs), which use unitary recurrence matrices,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-02 Scott Wisdom , Thomas Powers , John R. Hershey , Jonathan Le Roux , Les Atlas

Recurrent Neural Networks are powerful machine learning frameworks that allow for data to be saved and referenced in a temporal sequence. This opens many new possibilities in fields such as handwriting analysis and speech recognition. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Joseph M. Ackerson , Dave Rushit , Seliya Jim

Unitary Evolution Recurrent Neural Networks (uRNNs) have three attractive properties: (a) the unitary property, (b) the complex-valued nature, and (c) their efficient linear operators. The literature so far does not address -- how critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Izhak Shafran , Tom Bagby , R. J. Skerry-Ryan

This study investigates the learnability of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) in classifying structured formal languages, focusing on counter and Dyck languages. Traditionally, both first-order (LSTM) and second-order (O2RNN) RNNs have been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Neisarg Dave , Daniel Kifer , Lee Giles , Ankur Mali

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