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Neural systems are well known for their ability to learn and store information as memories. Even more impressive is their ability to abstract these memories to create complex internal representations, enabling advanced functions such as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Lindsay M. Smith , Jason Z. Kim , Zhixin Lu , Dani S. Bassett

A resistive memory network that has no crossover wiring is proposed to overcome the hardware limitations to size and functional complexity that is associated with conventional analogue neural networks. The proposed memory network is based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-01-31 Alex Pappachen James , Sima Dimitrijev

Recurrent neural network is a powerful model that learns temporal patterns in sequential data. For a long time, it was believed that recurrent networks are difficult to train using simple optimizers, such as stochastic gradient descent, due…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Tomas Mikolov , Armand Joulin , Sumit Chopra , Michael Mathieu , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Echo State Networks (ESNs) are a particular type of untrained Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) within the Reservoir Computing (RC) framework, popular for their fast and efficient learning. However, traditional ESNs often struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Matteo Pinna , Andrea Ceni , Claudio Gallicchio

Speech recognition is a critical task in the field of artificial intelligence and has witnessed remarkable advancements thanks to large and complex neural networks, whose training process typically requires massive amounts of labeled data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Enrico Picco , Alessandro Lupo , Serge Massar

Deep neural networks have shown superior performance in many regimes to remember familiar patterns with large amounts of data. However, the standard supervised deep learning paradigm is still limited when facing the need to learn new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Jing Shi , Jiaming Xu , Yiqun Yao , Bo Xu

Echo State Networks (ESN) are a class of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) that has gained substantial popularity due to their effectiveness, ease of use and potential for compact hardware implementation. An ESN contains the three network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Luca Carcano , Emanuele Plebani , Danilo Pietro Pau , Marco Piastra

Recently, deep residual networks have been successfully applied in many computer vision and natural language processing tasks, pushing the state-of-the-art performance with deeper and wider architectures. In this work, we interpret deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Bo Chang , Lili Meng , Eldad Haber , Lars Ruthotto , David Begert , Elliot Holtham

Scaling model capacity has been vital in the success of deep learning. For a typical network, necessary compute resources and training time grow dramatically with model size. Conditional computation is a promising way to increase the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Louis Kirsch , Julius Kunze , David Barber

Reservoir computers (RCs) provide a computationally efficient alternative to deep learning while also offering a framework for incorporating brain-inspired computational principles. By using an internal neural network with random, fixed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Keshav Srinivasan , Dietmar Plenz , Michelle Girvan

Reservoir computing (RC) represents a class of state-space models (SSMs) characterized by a fixed state transition mechanism (the reservoir) and a flexible readout layer that maps from the state space. It is a paradigm of computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Pradeep Singh , Ashutosh Kumar , Sutirtha Ghosh , Hrishit B P , Balasubramanian Raman

Tasks in which rewards depend upon past information not available in the current observation set can only be solved by agents that are equipped with short-term memory. Usual choices for memory modules include trainable recurrent hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kevin McKee

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are powerful constructs capable of modeling complex systems, up to and including Turing Machines. However, learning such complex models from finite training sets can be difficult. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-23 John Clemens

A Differentiable Neural Computer (DNC) is a neural network with an external memory which allows for iterative content modification via read, write and delete operations. We show that information theoretic properties of the memory contents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Ari Azarafrooz

Intelligence necessitates memory. Without memory, humans fail to perform various nontrivial tasks such as reading novels, playing games or solving maths. As the ultimate goal of machine learning is to derive intelligent systems that learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hung Le

Neural networks powered with external memory simulate computer behaviors. These models, which use the memory to store data for a neural controller, can learn algorithms and other complex tasks. In this paper, we introduce a new memory to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Hung Le , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

The prefrontal cortex is known to be involved in many high-level cognitive functions, in particular, working memory. Here, we study to what extent a group of randomly connected units (namely an Echo State Network, ESN) can store and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-19 Anthony Strock , Nicolas Rougier , Xavier Hinaut

Although Deep Neural Networks reached remarkable performance on several benchmarks and even gained scientific publicity, they are not able to address the concept of cognition as a whole. In this paper, we argue that those architectures are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Doreen Jirak , Stefan Wermter

Using transformers over large generated datasets, we train models to learn mathematical properties of differential systems, such as local stability, behavior at infinity and controllability. We achieve near perfect prediction of qualitative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 François Charton , Amaury Hayat , Guillaume Lample

A Literature Review of Reservoir Computing. Even before Artificial Intelligence was its own field of computational science, humanity has tried to mimic the activity of the human brain. In the early 1940s the first artificial neuron models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Felix Grezes