Stochastic models fail to outperform standard recurrent networks in sequence modeling.
problem Discrepancy in performance between stochastic and standard recurrent models in sequence modeling.
method Re-examine roles of latent variables, remove restriction on fully factorized output distribution, compare auto-regressive models.
result Standard recurrent models consistently outperform stochastic models in sequence modeling.
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…
HMRNN combines HMMs and neural networks for Alzheimer's disease forecasting.
problem Improving disease progression modeling with hidden states not fully known.
method Developed HMRNN combining HMMs and recurrent neural networks.
result HMRNN improves disease forecasting and offers novel clinical interpretation.
This work combines recurrent models with diffusion for probabilistic time series forecasting.
problem Scalability and capturing high-dimensional distributions and cross-feature dependencies in time series forecasting.
method Combines recurrent neural networks' efficiency with diffusion models' probabilistic modeling, using stochastic interpolants and conditional generation.
result Offers scalable probabilistic time series forecasting methods.
A hybrid CNN with shared parameters learns to incorporate recurrent structures.
problem Designing efficient recurrent neural networks.
method Parameter sharing scheme combining CNN and recurrent layers.
result Substantial parameter savings with competitive accuracy.
We present the multiplicative recurrent neural network as a general model for compositional meaning in language, and evaluate it on the task of fine-grained sentiment analysis. We establish a connection to the previously investigated matrix-space models for compositionality, and show they are special cases of the multi…
Study shows RNNs are effective for trend detection in time series.
problem Detecting trends in noisy time series data.
method Empirical investigation of standard RNNs for trend detection using simulated data.
result Standard RNNs structures outperform other estimators in trend detection.
Dual neural network architecture improves accuracy and interpretability.
problem Improving neural network interpretability and accuracy.
method Stacked recurrent and feedforward layers, binary activation function.
result Binary activation leads to simpler, more interpretable models with higher accuracy.
Neural network predicts cardiovascular events from EHRs with high accuracy.
problem Predicting onset of cardiovascular diseases from electronic health records.
method Multi-task gated recurrent units with attention mechanism.
result Model outperforms clinical risk scores in predicting stroke and myocardial infarction.
Paper proposes a faster RAE with sequence-aware encoding.
problem Training recurrent autoencoders is challenging and time-consuming.
method Introduces a recurrent autoencoder with sequence-aware encoding using 1D convolutional layers.
result The proposed autoencoder trains faster than standard RAE.
In this paper, we propose a new Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architecture. The novelty is simple: We use diagonal recurrent matrices instead of full. This results in better test likelihood and faster convergence compared to regular full RNNs in most of our experiments. We show the benefits of using diagonal recurrent…
Paper introduces RNTK for recurrent neural networks, improving performance across various datasets.
problem Understanding and optimizing overparametrized recurrent neural networks.
method Developed the Recurrent Neural Tangent Kernel (RNTK) to compare inputs of different lengths.
result RNTK offers significant performance gains over other kernels, including standard NTKs, across multiple datasets.
IAM improves deep RL by selectively storing influential past observations.
problem Training and performance issues with recurrent neural networks in high-dimensional environments.
method Influence-aware memory architecture that restricts input to variables influencing hidden state.
result IAM outperforms standard RNNs in training speed and policy performance.
PF-RNNs use particle filtering to model uncertainty in RNNs for better sequential data prediction.
problem Highly variable and noisy sequential data.
method PF-RNNs maintain a latent state distribution as a set of particles, updating with Bayes rule.
result PF-RNNs outperform standard RNNs on various sequence prediction tasks.
New method selects facts in proofs using stateful recurrent neural networks.
problem Selecting facts for proving new goals over large formal libraries.
method Stateful architecture based on recurrent neural networks with data augmentation.
result Significantly better performance and solving many new problems compared to previous methods.
A new RNN architecture reduces model size and improves performance.
problem Overparameterization and resource limitations in RNNs.
method Jointly encodes weight matrices using tensor-train factorization.
result Reduces model size by several orders of magnitude without sacrificing performance.
Develops a tensor network framework to reduce RNN complexity for high-dimensional sequence modeling.
problem Exponential parameter growth in RNNs for large multidimensional data.
method Embeds a multi-linear graph filter in a tensor network architecture to approximate RNN hidden states.
result Demonstrates superior performance and reduced complexity compared to traditional RNNs.
New method reduces memory usage in deep HRNNs by replacing gradient backpropagation with local losses.
problem Memory constraints in training deep hierarchical RNNs.
method Replace gradient backpropagation with locally computable losses in deep HRNNs.
result Memory requirements reduced by a factor exponential in hierarchy depth.
Simplified LSTM models improve sentiment analysis on Twitter debate data.
problem Performing sentiment analysis on long sequence data from Twitter debates.
method Developed six parameter-reduced LSTM models (slim LSTM) for faster training and reduced computational cost.
result Slim LSTM models outperform standard LSTM model in sentiment analysis of GOP Debate Twitter dataset.
Many efforts have been devoted to training generative latent variable models with autoregressive decoders, such as recurrent neural networks (RNN). Stochastic recurrent models have been successful in capturing the variability observed in natural sequential data such as speech. We unify successful ideas from recently pr…
Value Iteration Networks (VINs) are effective differentiable path planning modules that can be used by agents to perform navigation while still maintaining end-to-end differentiability of the entire architecture. Despite their effectiveness, they suffer from several disadvantages including training instability, random …
Neural networks learn symbolic structure to perform compositional tasks.
problem How neural networks perform well on compositional tasks without explicit representations.
method ROLE analysis to uncover symbolic structure in recurrent neural networks.
result Neural networks converge to solutions that implicitly represent symbolic structure.
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 memory cells mean an LSTM layer has four times as many parameters as an RNN with the…
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have long been recognized for their potential to model complex time series. However, it remains to be determined what optimization techniques and recurrent architectures can be used to best realize this potential. The experiments presented take a deep look into Hessian free optimization…
We introduce multiplicative LSTM (mLSTM), a recurrent neural network architecture for sequence modelling that combines the long short-term memory (LSTM) and multiplicative recurrent neural network architectures. mLSTM is characterised by its ability to have different recurrent transition functions for each possible inp…
A new technique reduces the size of rRNNs for time series prediction.
problem Minimizing the size of rRNNs for efficient time series prediction.
method Combining Takens-based attractor reconstruction with machine learning for feature extraction.
result Reduced network size by a factor of 15 with improved performance.
New model handles uneven time intervals better than traditional methods.
problem Irregularly-sampled time series data.
method Generalizes RNNs to ODE-RNNs, explicitly modeling observation gaps.
result ODE-RNNs outperform traditional models on irregular data.
Normalization techniques have only recently begun to be exploited in supervised learning tasks. Batch normalization exploits mini-batch statistics to normalize the activations. This was shown to speed up training and result in better models. However its success has been very limited when dealing with recurrent neural n…
News novelty predicts negative stock market returns.
problem Negative stock market returns due to increased news novelty.
method Quantified news novelty using entropy measure from recurrent neural network applied to a large news corpus.
result Entropy exposure carries a negative risk premium, indicating that assets positively correlated with entropy hedge aggregate news risk.
Interneurons improve learning in neural networks by accelerating convergence.
problem Rapid adaptation to changing input statistics in neural networks.
method Two mathematically tractable recurrent linear neural networks were compared: one with direct recurrent connections and the other with interneurons that mediate recurrent communication.
result The network with interneurons converges more quickly than the network with direct recurrent connections, scaling logarithmically with initialization spectrum.
Unified recurrent networks reveal differences in complexity levels of grammars.
problem Understanding the complexity and behavior of recurrent networks.
method Connecting recurrent networks with deterministic finite automata and formal grammars.
result Unified recurrent networks improve performance and match grammars from different complexity levels.
This paper analyzes the generalization risk of unrolled neural networks using Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimator.
problem Analyzing the generalization risk of unrolled neural networks and its relationship to network design and train sample size.
method Using Stein's Unbiased Risk Estimator (SURE), the paper analyzes the generalization risk with bias and variance components for recurrent unrolled networks, focusing on the degrees-of-freedom (DOF) component and the trace of the end-to-end network Jacobian.
result DOF is well-approximated by the weighted path sparsity of the network under incoherence conditions on the trained weights, and DOF increases with train sample size and converges to the generalization risk for both recurrent and non-recurrent schemes.
Recurrent neural networks improve time series forecasting accuracy.
problem Time series forecasting is challenging, especially for sequential data.
method A recurrent neural network framework for feature engineering, prediction, and evaluation is presented.
result The LSTM and GRU networks outperform traditional methods in forecasting accuracy.
Recent advances in conditional recurrent language modelling have mainly focused on network architectures (e.g., attention mechanism), learning algorithms (e.g., scheduled sampling and sequence-level training) and novel applications (e.g., image/video description generation, speech recognition, etc.) On the other hand, …
Deep learning models predict ICU readmission with varying accuracy.
problem Predicting ICU readmission risk using deep learning architectures.
method Several deep learning architectures including attention-based models, recurrent layers, neural ODEs, and embeddings were trained on MIMIC-III data.
result Attention-based models with neural ODEs achieved highest predictive accuracy.
Neural networks struggle with abstract patterns, new RBP structures improve performance.
problem Neural networks fail to learn abstract patterns based on identity rules.
method Proposed Relation Based Pattern (RBP) extensions to neural network structures.
result Neural networks with RBP structures achieve perfect performance on synthetic and real-world sequence prediction tasks.
CNN-F uses generative feedback to improve neural networks' robustness to perturbations.
problem Neural networks' vulnerability to input perturbations like noise and attacks.
method Enforces self-consistency in neural networks by incorporating generative recurrent feedback.
result CNN-F shows significantly improved adversarial robustness compared to conventional CNNs.
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are powerful models for sequential data that have the potential to learn long-term dependencies. However, they are computationally expensive to train and difficult to parallelize. Recent work has shown that normalizing intermediate representations of neural networks can significantly im…
RecNets use RNNs to process image channels in a compact, recurrent way.
problem Creating efficient neural network architectures for computer vision.
method Introducing RecNets with CRC layers that simulate recurrent processing of image channels.
result RecNets achieve superior size-accuracy trade-off compared to other compact models.
New method identifies latent variables in cognitive models using neural networks.
problem Inference of latent variables in complex cognitive models is limited.
method Recurrent neural networks and simulation-based inference for latent variable sequences.
result Extends neural Bayes estimation to broader classes of cognitive models.
This work optimizes reservoir computing models by linking recurrence and non-linear dynamics.
problem Understanding how recurrence and non-linear dynamics in cortical networks contribute to their function.
method Transformed time-continuous, recurrent dynamics into an effective feed-forward structure of linear and non-linear temporal kernels.
result Optimal time-series classifiers can be built from random reservoir networks, demonstrating significant performance gains.
QSD enhances deep network performance through biologically plausible dropout.
problem Overfitting in deep networks.
method Quantal Synaptic Dilution (QSD) model based on neuronal synapses.
result QSD outperforms standard dropout in various deep network architectures.
Many applications in speech, robotics, finance, and biology deal with sequential data, where ordering matters and recurrent structures are common. However, this structure cannot be easily captured by standard kernel functions. To model such structure, we propose expressive closed-form kernel functions for Gaussian proc…
Bayesian approach improves neural network recurrence.
problem Improving neural network recurrence mechanisms.
method Introducing Bayesian recurrence relations and gates.
result Bayesian approach can perform as well as or better than conventional recurrent networks.
Stability is a fundamental property of dynamical systems, yet to this date it has had little bearing on the practice of recurrent neural networks. In this work, we conduct a thorough investigation of stable recurrent models. Theoretically, we prove stable recurrent neural networks are well approximated by feed-forward …
QRPNNs use quaternion-valued recurrent correlation neural networks to solve cross-talk issues.
problem Cross-talk problem in QRCNNs.
method Combining non-local projection learning with QRCNNs.
result QRPNNs exhibit greater storage capacity and noise tolerance.
CTCModel extends Keras for transparent CTC classification.
problem Handling unsegmented input sequences with labels related to subsets of frames.
method Combines Keras and CTC implementation in Tensorflow backend.
result CTCModel predicts sequences of labels from unsegmented input.
Gradient-descent-ascent dynamics can exhibit various behaviors in non-convex non-concave games.
problem Gradient-descent-ascent dynamics in non-convex non-concave games can lead to recurrent behavior and spurious equilibria.
method Combines optimization theory, game theory, and dynamical systems.
result Gradient-descent-ascent dynamics can exhibit Poincaré recurrence and converge to spurious equilibria.