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Neural networks are more expressive when they have multiple layers. In turn, conventional training methods are only successful if the depth does not lead to numerical issues such as exploding or vanishing gradients, which occur less…

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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

Gating mechanisms are widely used in neural network models, where they allow gradients to backpropagate more easily through depth or time. However, their saturation property introduces problems of its own. For example, in recurrent models…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Transformers (GTs) are now a fundamental paradigm for graph learning, combining the representation-learning capabilities of deep models with the sample efficiency induced by their inductive biases.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Stefano Carotti , Marco Pacini , Alessio Gravina , Davide Bacciu , Bruno Lepri , Sebastiano Bontorin

Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is a fundamental structure in deep learning. Recently, some works study the training process of over-parameterized neural networks, and show that over-parameterized networks can learn functions in some notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Lifu Wang , Bo Shen , Bo Hu , Xing Cao

Deep convolutional neural networks are known to be unstable during training at high learning rate unless normalization techniques are employed. Normalizing weights or activations allows the use of higher learning rates, resulting in faster…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Brendan Ruff , Taylor Beck , Joscha Bach

Neural Quantum States based on autoregressive recurrent neural network (RNN) wave functions enable efficient sampling without Markov-chain autocorrelation, but standard RNN architectures are biased toward finite-length correlations and can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Asif Bin Ayub , Amine Mohamed Aboussalah , Mohamed Hibat-Allah

Stability arguments are often used to prevent learning algorithms from having ever increasing activity and weights that hinder generalization. However, stability conditions can clash with the sparsity required to augment the energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Luca Herranz-Celotti , Jean Rouat

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) can be seriously impacted by the initial parameters assignment, which may result in poor generalization performances on new unseen data. With the objective to tackle this crucial issue, in the context of RNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Dino Ienco , Roberto Interdonato , Raffaele Gaetano

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have gained a great deal of attention in solving sequential learning problems. The learning of long-term dependencies, however, remains challenging due to the problem of a vanishing or exploding hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Konstantin Rusch , John W. Pearson , Konstantinos C. Zygalakis

Medical time-series data are characterized by irregular sampling, high noise levels, missing values, and strong inter-feature dependencies. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), particularly gated architectures such as Long Short-Term Memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Maitri Krishna Sai

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

We describe recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which have attracted great attention on sequential tasks, such as handwriting recognition, speech recognition and image to text. However, compared to general feedforward neural networks, RNNs…

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Deep learning relies on good initialization schemes and hyperparameter choices prior to training a neural network. Random weight initializations induce random network ensembles, which give rise to the trainability, training speed, and…

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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with continuous-time hidden states are a natural fit for modeling irregularly-sampled time series. These models, however, face difficulties when the input data possess long-term dependencies. We prove that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Mathias Lechner , Ramin Hasani

Advancements in parallel processing have lead to a surge in multilayer perceptrons' (MLP) applications and deep learning in the past decades. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) give additional representational power to feedforward MLPs by…

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The goal of this paper is to provide sufficient conditions for guaranteeing the Input-to-State Stability (ISS) and the Incremental Input-to-State Stability ({\delta}ISS) of Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) neural networks. These conditions,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Fabio Bonassi , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini

Vanishing long-term gradients are a major issue in training standard recurrent neural networks (RNNs), which can be alleviated by long short-term memory (LSTM) models with memory cells. However, the extra parameters associated with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Chao Zhang , Philip Woodland

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…

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