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Continual acquisition of novel experience without interfering previously learned knowledge, i.e. continual learning, is critical for artificial neural networks, but limited by catastrophic forgetting. A neural network adjusts its parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Liyuan Wang , Bo Lei , Qian Li , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Yi Zhong

We investigate a new method to augment recurrent neural networks with extra memory without increasing the number of network parameters. The system has an associative memory based on complex-valued vectors and is closely related to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Ivo Danihelka , Greg Wayne , Benigno Uria , Nal Kalchbrenner , Alex Graves

Learning to remember long sequences remains a challenging task for recurrent neural networks. Register memory and attention mechanisms were both proposed to resolve the issue with either high computational cost to retain memory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Wei Zhang , Bowen Zhou

Over more than a decade there has been an extensive research effort on how to effectively utilize recurrent models and attention. While recurrent models aim to compress the data into a fixed-size memory (called hidden state), attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ali Behrouz , Peilin Zhong , Vahab Mirrokni

Continual Learning in artificial neural networks suffers from interference and forgetting when different tasks are learned sequentially. This paper introduces the Active Long Term Memory Networks (A-LTM), a model of sequential multi-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-09 Tommaso Furlanello , Jiaping Zhao , Andrew M. Saxe , Laurent Itti , Bosco S. Tjan

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

Attention mechanisms have been boosting the performance of deep learning models on a wide range of applications, ranging from speech understanding to program induction. However, despite experiments from psychology which suggest that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Lukas Hahne , Timo Lüddecke , Florentin Wörgötter , David Kappel

We introduce a neural network with a recurrent attention model over a possibly large external memory. The architecture is a form of Memory Network (Weston et al., 2015) but unlike the model in that work, it is trained end-to-end, and hence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston , Rob Fergus

In order to enhance the real-time performance of convolutional neural networks(CNNs), more and more researchers are focusing on improving the efficiency of CNN. Based on the analysis of some CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Attention mechanisms have revolutionized sequence learning but suffer from quadratic computational complexity. This paper introduces \model, a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) mechanism that leverages the inherent low-rank structure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mahdi Karami , Razvan Pascanu , Vahab Mirrokni

Learning and memory are intertwined in our brain and their relationship is at the core of several recent neural network models. In particular, the Attention-Gated MEmory Tagging model (AuGMEnT) is a reinforcement learning network with an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-02-19 Marco Martinolli , Wulfram Gerstner , Aditya Gilra

The existing crowd counting methods usually adopted attention mechanism to tackle background noise, or applied multi-level features or multi-scales context fusion to tackle scale variation. However, these approaches deal with these two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fusen Wang , Jun Sang , Zhongyuan Wu , Qi Liu , Nong Sang

Recent advances in attention-free sequence models rely on convolutions as alternatives to the attention operator at the core of Transformers. In particular, long convolution sequence models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many…

Transformers have surpassed RNNs in popularity due to their superior abilities in parallel training and long-term dependency modeling. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in using linear RNNs for efficient sequence modeling. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhen Qin , Songlin Yang , Yiran Zhong

In this paper, the efficient hinging hyperplanes (EHH) neural network is proposed based on the model of hinging hyperplanes (HH). The EHH neural network is a distributed representation, the training of which involves solving several convex…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Jun Xu , Qinghua Tao , Zhen Li , Xiangming Xi , Johan A. K. Suykens , Shuning Wang

Linear-attention models that compress the entire input sequence into a fixed-size recurrent state offer an efficient alternative to Transformers, but their finite memory induces forgetfulness that harms retrieval-intensive tasks. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mutian He , Philip N. Garner

Humans can effectively find salient regions in complex scenes. Self-attention mechanisms were introduced into Computer Vision (CV) to achieve this. Attention Augmented Convolutional Network (AANet) is a mixture of convolution and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Runqing Zhang , Tianshu Zhu

Artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when they are sequentially trained on multiple tasks. To overcome this problem, we present a novel approach based on task-conditioned hypernetworks, i.e., networks that generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Johannes von Oswald , Christian Henning , Benjamin F. Grewe , João Sacramento

Associative memory models based on Hopfield networks and self-attention based on key-value mechanisms have been popular approaches in the study of memory mechanisms in deep learning. It has been pointed out that the state update rule of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Tsubasa Masumura , Masato Taki

Recent works show that hybrid architectures combining local sliding window attention layers and global attention layers outperform either of these architectures taken separately. However, the impact of the window length and the interplay…