The paper evaluates three variants of the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) in recurrent neural networks (RNN) by reducing parameters in the update and reset gates. We evaluate the three variant GRU models on MNIST and IMDB datasets and show that these GRU-RNN variant models perform as well as the original GRU RNN model while…
In this work, we propose a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture. The proposed RNN, gated-feedback RNN (GF-RNN), extends the existing approach of stacking multiple recurrent layers by allowing and controlling signals flowing from upper recurrent layers to lower layers using a global gating unit for each pai…
Bayesian method sparsifies gated RNNs, improving speed and interpretability.
problem Sparsifying neural networks to reduce complexity and improve performance.
method Bayesian approach to sparsify weights, neurons, and gates in LSTM architectures.
result Sparsified gated RNNs speed up forward pass and improve compression.
We sparsify gated RNNs by simplifying their structure.
problem Improving efficiency of RNNs by reducing their complexity.
method Adjust existing sparsification techniques to gated RNNs, sparsifying preactivations of gates.
result Simplified LSTM structure improves model performance and efficiency.
Improved GRU model with weighted time-delay feedback for long-term dependencies.
problem Modeling long-term dependencies in sequential data.
method Introducing a gated recurrent unit (GRU) with a weighted time-delay feedback mechanism.
result τ-GRU outperforms state-of-the-art models on various tasks.
Successful recurrent models such as long short-term memories (LSTMs) and gated recurrent units (GRUs) use ad hoc gating mechanisms. Empirically these models have been found to improve the learning of medium to long term temporal dependencies and to help with vanishing gradient issues. We prove that learnable gates in a…
Theory explains how recurrent networks remember sequences.
problem Understanding how recurrent networks remember sequences and perform well.
method Mean field theory and random matrix theory applied to RNNs with gating mechanisms.
result Gated RNNs outperform non-gated RNNs in remembering sequences.
LSTMs were introduced to combat vanishing gradients in simple RNNs by augmenting them with gated additive recurrent connections. We present an alternative view to explain the success of LSTMs: the gates themselves are versatile recurrent models that provide more representational power than previously appreciated. We do…
GCRNNs improve graph problem solving with fewer parameters.
problem Graph process problems like earthquake epicenter identification and weather prediction.
method GCRNNs use convolutional filter banks and time-gated variations of GCRNNs (Gated GCRNNs) to improve performance.
result GCRNNs significantly improve performance over GNNs and another graph recurrent architecture.
Recurrent neural networks with various types of hidden units have been used to solve a diverse range of problems involving sequence data. Two of the most recent proposals, gated recurrent units (GRU) and minimal gated units (MGU), have shown comparable promising results on example public datasets. In this paper, we int…
Improved RNNs with flexible gates using kernel activation functions.
problem Modeling long-term dependencies in sequential data.
method Designed a more flexible architecture with adaptable parameters using kernel activation functions.
result Improved accuracy with negligible computational cost and speed-up in training iterations.
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with sophisticated units that implement a gating mechanism have emerged as powerful technique for modeling sequential signals such as speech or electroencephalography (EEG). The latter is the focus on this paper. A significant big data resource, known as the TUH EEG Corpus (TUEEG), has …
Gated Path Planning Network improves path planning efficiency and stability.
problem Training instability and optimization issues in Value Iteration Networks.
method Reframed VINs as recurrent-convolutional networks with gated update equations.
result Gated Path Planning Network outperforms VINs in various metrics.
Paper proposes binary-valued gates for better LSTM training.
problem LSTMs struggle with soft gates, leading to unclear information flow.
method Introduces binary-valued gates to control information flow more clearly.
result Binary-valued gates improve LSTM performance and generalization.
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 from inputs. For modeling long-term dependencies in a dataset, the gating mecha…
mGRN improves multivariate time series prediction by managing marginal and joint memories.
problem Extracting dependencies in multivariate sequential data with strong serial and cross-sectional dependencies.
method Developed a novel recurrent network architecture, Memory-Gated Recurrent Networks (mGRN), with gates for marginal and joint memories.
result mGRN consistently outperforms state-of-the-art architectures on various public datasets.
Novel complex RNN improves stability and performance in sequence tasks.
problem Lack of complex representations in deep learning for sequence tasks.
method Developed a complex gated recurrent cell combining complex-valued and norm-preserving state transitions with a gating mechanism.
result Improves stability and convergence properties, performs competitively on various tasks.
Sophisticated gated recurrent neural network architectures like LSTMs and GRUs have been shown to be highly effective in a myriad of applications. We develop an un-gated unit, the statistical recurrent unit (SRU), that is able to learn long term dependencies in data by only keeping moving averages of statistics. The SR…
Cortical circuits exhibit intricate recurrent architectures that are remarkably similar across different brain areas. Such stereotyped structure suggests the existence of common computational principles. However, such principles have remained largely elusive. Inspired by gated-memory networks, namely long short-term me…
The standard LSTM recurrent neural networks while very powerful in long-range dependency sequence applications have highly complex structure and relatively large (adaptive) parameters. In this work, we present empirical comparison between the standard LSTM recurrent neural network architecture and three new parameter-r…
Study on recurrent neural networks' feature selection and memorization using F1B test.
problem Conflict between feature selection and memorization in sequence learning.
method Flagged-1-Bit (F1B) test, four recurrent network models studied analytically and experimentally.
result Conflict can be resolved by gating mechanism or increasing state dimension.
Study shows GRU model with dropout outperforms in Bitcoin price prediction.
problem Predicting Bitcoin price and volatility using machine learning.
method Advanced machine learning methods including GRU with recurrent dropout, feature engineering, and RMSE evaluation.
result Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) model with recurrent dropout outperforms traditional models in Bitcoin price prediction.
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 extending unitary RNNs with a gating mechanism. Our model is able to outperform LSTM…
Paper presents FPGA implementation for efficient recurrent neural networks.
problem Implementing recurrent neural networks on FPGAs for low latency.
method Developed hls4ml framework to implement LSTM and GRU layers.
result Demonstrated effective designs for both small and large models.
New kernel-based models improve on traditional neural methods in sequence modeling.
problem Sequence modeling challenges in natural language processing and neuroscience.
method Kernel-based recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks.
result Kernel-based models perform on par or better than traditional neural methods.
RAU integrates attention into GRU for better sequence learning.
problem Lack of attention mechanism in GRU leads to information redundancy or loss.
method RAU adds an attention gate to GRU to adaptively focus on regions of interest.
result RAU consistently outperforms GRU and other methods in various tasks.
A new memory-efficient sign language translation model reduces weight usage.
problem Memory constraints in real-time sign language translation.
method Variational Bayesian sequence-to-sequence network with Gaussian posterior and Indian Buffet Process prior.
result The proposed model achieves substantial weight compression without compromising performance.
DeepESNs outperform ESN and GRUs in multivariate time-series prediction.
problem Comparing DeepESNs and gated RNNs for multivariate time-series prediction.
method Experimental comparison of DeepESNs and gated RNNs (Gated Recurrent Units, Long Short-Term Memory) on 4 polyphonic music tasks.
result DeepESNs outperform ESN and GRUs in terms of prediction accuracy and efficiency.
GRUs exhibit diverse dynamical behaviors but cannot mimic continuous attractors.
problem Understanding and predicting the dynamics of GRUs for neural data.
method Continuous time dynamical systems analysis of GRU networks.
result GRUs can represent stable limit cycles, multi-stable dynamics, and homoclinic bifurcations but not continuous attractors.
Given the success of the gated recurrent unit, a natural question is whether all the gates of the long short-term memory (LSTM) network are necessary. Previous research has shown that the forget gate is one of the most important gates in the LSTM. Here we show that a forget-gate-only version of the LSTM with chrono-ini…
New interpretation of RNN forget gate improves learnability for long-term sequential data.
problem Improving learnability of recurrent neural networks for long-term temporal dependencies.
method Generalized theory of gated RNNs, focusing on gradient behavior over time.
result Existing RNNs satisfy the gradient condition for initial training, suggesting validity of forget gate interpretation.
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) play a major role in the field of sequential learning, and have outperformed traditional algorithms on many benchmarks. Training deep RNNs still remains a challenge, and most of the state-of-the-art models are structured with a transition depth of 2-4 layers. Recurrent Highway Networks …
Gating units in GRUs and LSTMs create slow modes and control phase-space complexity.
problem Training challenges in RNNs due to exploding or vanishing gradients.
method Random matrix theory and mean-field theory applied to GRUs and LSTMs.
result Gates in GRUs and LSTMs lead to accumulation of slow modes and control phase-space complexity.
Paper introduces a simpler gated RNN structure to better capture long-term dependencies.
problem Difficulty in learning long-term dependencies in RNNs.
method Proposes a grouped distributor unit (GDU) with partitioned hidden states and adaptive update rates.
result GDU outperforms LSTM and GRU on various tasks, including pathological and natural data.
Paper introduces methods to integrate external knowledge into RNNs using attention mechanisms.
problem Incorporating external knowledge into RNNs for improved performance.
method Proposes three methods: attentional concatenation, feature-based gating, and affine transformation.
result Attentional feature-based gating consistently improves performance across tasks.
MCRM improves LSTM-GRU memory by compactly nesting them.
problem Improving recurrent neural network memory for temporal sequence tasks.
method Introducing MCRM, a nested LSTM-GRU architecture with compact memory.
result MCRMs outperform existing architectures on specific tasks.
Efficient keyword spotting model using dilated convolutions and gating.
problem Keyword spotting in resource-constrained environments.
method End-to-end temporal modeling with dilated convolutions, gated activations, and residual connections.
result Our model outperforms LSTM-based keyword spotting with a significant decrease in false rejection rate.
DeepProteomics uses neural networks to classify protein families efficiently.
problem Lack of functional annotation for many protein sequences in databases.
method Used RNN, LSTM, GRU, and deep neural network models on a dataset of 40,433 proteins.
result Achieved maximum 78% accuracy in classifying protein families.
Model compresses event-like contexts using gated surprise signals.
problem Perceiving a dynamic world as organized events.
method Hierarchical, surprise-gated recurrent neural network architecture.
result Achieves best performance on multiple event processing tasks.
Neural network predicts falls in elderly people up to 10 minutes in advance.
problem Falls prevention in elderly people, especially in aging societies.
method Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) based neural networks model using heart rate and mean blood pressure signals.
result Predicted syncope occurrence approximately 10 minutes before manual markers.
Study improves stock index prediction accuracy using TPE-GRNN models.
problem Enhancing prediction of stock index prices in volatile markets.
method Gated recurrent neural networks (LSTM, GRU) combined with TPE Bayesian optimization.
result TPE-LSTM method shows lowest MAPE (best accuracy) for NIFTY 50 index prediction.
A major contributing factor to the recent advances in deep neural networks is structural units that let sensory information and gradients to propagate easily. Gating is one such structure that acts as a flow control. Gates are employed in many recent state-of-the-art recurrent models such as LSTM and GRU, and feedforwa…
Paper presents a neural network method for automated bug and ticket classification.
problem Automated classification of bug and ticket content in systems.
method Recurrent neural network with hierarchical attention mechanism.
result The method outperforms previous approaches on two datasets.
T-GCN predicts traffic using neural networks for spatial and temporal data.
problem Accurate real-time traffic forecasting in urban networks.
method Combines GCN for spatial and GRU for temporal data analysis.
result T-GCN outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on real-world traffic datasets.
A new LSTM model reduces state updates and improves convergence for long sequences.
problem Vanishing gradient problem in RNNs and slow convergence on long sequences.
method Gaussian-gated LSTM (g-LSTM) with a time gate to control neuron updates.
result The g-LSTM model reduces state updates and computes by at least 10x compared to an equivalent LSTM.
Improved time series classification with GRU-FCN model.
problem Time series classification challenges.
method Hybrid LSTM-GRU model for univariate time series classification.
result GRU-FCN model outperforms state-of-the-art models.
Study proposes GRU-D networks for missing value handling in road surface friction prediction.
problem Missing values in road surface friction data affect prediction accuracy.
method Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) network with decay mechanism.
result GRU-D networks outperform baseline models in road surface friction prediction.
New eGRU unit improves keyword spotting on ultra-low-power devices.
problem Resource constraints of edge devices for neural network deployment.
method Optimized recurrent unit architecture for ultra-low power.
result eGRU is 60x faster and 10x smaller than GRU, maintaining accuracy.