Brain Networks Laboratory (Choe Lab)

PRNN: Recurrent Neural Network with Persistent Memory

Jan 30, 2018

PRNN: Recurrent Neural Network with Persistent Memory

Abstract: Although Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) has been a powerful tool for modeling sequential data, its performance is inadequate when processing sequences with multiple patterns. In this paper, we address this challenge by introducing an external memory and constructing a novel persistent memory augmented RNN (term as PRNN) model. The PRNN model captures the principle patterns in training sequences and stores them in the explicit memory. By leveraging the persistent memory, the proposed method can adaptively update states according to the similarities between encoded inputs and memory slots, leading to a stronger capacity in assimilating sequences with multiple patterns. Content-based addressing is suggested in memory accessing, and gradient descent is utilized for implicitly updating the memory. Experiments on several datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.08094v1


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