Several variants of the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture for recurrent neural networks have been proposed since its inception in 1995. In recent years, these networks have become the state-of-the-art models for a variety of machine learning problems. This has led to a renewed interest in understanding the role and utility of various computational components of typical LSTM variants. In this paper, we present the first large-scale analysis of eight LSTM variants on three representative tasks: speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and polyphonic music modeling. The hyperparameters of all LSTM variants for each task were optimized separately using random search, and their importance was assessed using the powerful fANOVA framework. In total, we summarize the results of 5400 experimental runs (≈ 15 years of CPU time), which makes our study the largest of its kind on LSTM networks. Our results show that none of the variants can improve upon the standard LSTM architecture significantly, and demonstrate the forget gate and the output activation function to be its most critical components. We further observe that the studied hyperparameters are virtually independent and derive guidelines for their efficient adjustment.

In this paper we compare different types of recurrent units in recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Especially, we focus on more sophisticated units that implement a gating mechanism, such as a long short-term memory (LSTM) unit and a recently proposed gated recurrent unit (GRU). We evaluate these recurrent units on the tasks of polyphonic music modeling and speech signal modeling. Our experiments revealed that these advanced recurrent units are indeed better than more traditional recurrent units such as tanh units. Also, we found GRU to be comparable to LSTM.

Learning to store information over extended time intervals via recurrent backpropagation takes a very long time, mostly due to insu cient, decaying error back ow. We brie y review Hochreiter's 1991 analysis of this problem, then address it by introducing a novel, e cient, gradient-based method called \Long Short-Term Memory" (LSTM). Truncating the gradient where this does not do harm, LSTM can learn to bridge minimal time lags in excess of 1000 discrete time steps by enforcing constant error ow through \constant error carrousels" within special units. Multiplicative gate units learn to open and close access to the constant error ow. LSTM is local in space and time; its computational complexity per time step and weight is O(1). Our experiments with arti cial data involve local, distributed, real-valued, and noisy pattern representations. In comparisons with RTRL, BPTT, Recurrent Cascade-Correlation, Elman nets, and Neural Sequence Chunking, LSTM leads to many more successful runs, and learns much faster. LSTM also solves complex, arti cial long time lag tasks that have never been solved by previous recurrent network algorithms.to solve long time lag problems. (2) It has fully connected second-order sigma-pi units, while the LSTM architecture's MUs are used only to gate access to constant error ow. (3) Watrous and Kuhn's algorithm costs O(W 2 ) operations per time step, ours only O(W), where W is the number of weights. See also Miller and Giles (1993) for additional work on MUs.Simple weight guessing. To avoid long time lag problems of gradient-based approaches we may simply randomly initialize all network weights until the resulting net happens to classify all training sequences correctly. In fact, recently we discovered (Schmidhuber and Hochreiter 1996, 1997 that simple weight guessing solves many of the problems in , Miller and Giles 1993, Lin et al. 1995 faster than the algorithms proposed therein. This does not mean that weight guessing is a good algorithm. It just means that the problems are very simple. More realistic tasks require either many free parameters (e.g., input weights) or high weight precision (e.g., for continuous-valued parameters), such that guessing becomes completely infeasible.

在部分可观察域中的预测和规划的常见方法是使用经常性的神经网络（RNN），其理想地开发和维持关于隐藏，任务相关因素的潜伏。我们假设物理世界中的许多这些隐藏因素随着时间的推移是恒定的，而只是稀疏变化。为研究这一假设，我们提出了Gated $ L_0 $正规化的动态（Gatel0rd），一种新的经常性架构，它包含归纳偏差，以保持稳定，疏口改变潜伏状态。通过新颖的内部门控功能和潜在状态变化的$ l_0 $ norm的惩罚来实现偏差。我们证明Gatel0rd可以在各种部分可观察到的预测和控制任务中与最先进的RNN竞争或优于最先进的RNN。 Gatel0rd倾向于编码环境的基础生成因子，忽略了虚假的时间依赖性，并概括了更好的，提高了基于模型的规划和加强学习任务中的采样效率和整体性能。此外，我们表明可以容易地解释开发的潜在状态，这是朝着RNN中更好地解释的步骤。

在这项工作中，我们审查并评估了一个具有公开可用和广泛使用的数据集的深度学习知识追踪（DLKT）模型，以及学习编程的新型学生数据集。评估的DLKT模型已重新实现，用于评估先前报告的结果的可重复性和可复制性。我们测试在与模型的主要架构上独立于模型的比较模型中找到的不同输入和输出层变化，以及在某些研究中隐含地和明确地使用的不同最大尝试计数选项。几个指标用于反映评估知识追踪模型的质量。评估的知识追踪模型包括Vanilla-DKT，两个长短期内存深度知识跟踪（LSTM-DKT）变体，两个动态键值存储器网络（DKVMN）变体，以及自我细致的知识跟踪（SAKT）。我们评估Logistic回归，贝叶斯知识跟踪（BKT）和简单的非学习模型作为基准。我们的结果表明，DLKT模型一般优于非DLKT模型，DLKT模型之间的相对差异是微妙的，并且在数据集之间经常变化。我们的研究结果还表明，通常的纯模型，例如平均预测，比更复杂的知识追踪模型更好地表现出更好的性能，尤其是在准确性方面。此外，我们的公制和封路数据分析显示，用于选择最佳模型的度量标准对模型的性能有明显的影响，并且该度量选择可以影响模型排名。我们还研究了输入和输出层变化的影响，过滤出长期尝试序列，以及随机性和硬件等非模型属性。最后，我们讨论模型性能可重量和相关问题。我们的模型实现，评估代码和数据作为本工作的一部分发布。

预测基金绩效对投资者和基金经理都是有益的，但这是一项艰巨的任务。在本文中，我们测试了深度学习模型是否比传统统计技术更准确地预测基金绩效。基金绩效通常通过Sharpe比率进行评估，该比例代表了风险调整的绩效，以确保基金之间有意义的可比性。我们根据每月收益率数据序列数据计算了年度夏普比率，该数据的时间序列数据为600多个投资于美国上市大型股票的开放式共同基金投资。我们发现，经过现代贝叶斯优化训练的长期短期记忆（LSTM）和封闭式复发单元（GRUS）深度学习方法比传统统计量相比，预测基金的Sharpe比率更高。结合了LSTM和GRU的预测的合奏方法，可以实现所有模型的最佳性能。有证据表明，深度学习和结合能提供有希望的解决方案，以应对基金绩效预测的挑战。

Multilayer Neural Networks trained with the backpropagation algorithm constitute the best example of a successful Gradient-Based Learning technique. Given an appropriate network architecture, Gradient-Based Learning algorithms can be used to synthesize a complex decision surface that can classify high-dimensional patterns such as handwritten characters, with minimal preprocessing. This paper reviews various methods applied to handwritten character recognition and compares them on a standard handwritten digit recognition task. Convolutional Neural Networks, that are specifically designed to deal with the variability of 2D shapes, are shown to outperform all other techniques.Real-life document recognition systems are composed of multiple modules including eld extraction, segmentation, recognition, and language modeling. A new learning paradigm, called Graph Transformer Networks (GTN), allows such multi-module systems to be trained globally using Gradient-Based methods so as to minimize an overall performance measure.Two systems for on-line handwriting recognition are described. Experiments demonstrate the advantage of global training, and the exibility of Graph Transformer Networks.A Graph Transformer Network for reading bank check is also described. It uses Convolutional Neural Network character recognizers combined with global training techniques to provides record accuracy on business and personal checks. It is deployed commercially and reads several million checks per day.

Deep neural nets with a large number of parameters are very powerful machine learning systems. However, overfitting is a serious problem in such networks. Large networks are also slow to use, making it difficult to deal with overfitting by combining the predictions of many different large neural nets at test time. Dropout is a technique for addressing this problem. The key idea is to randomly drop units (along with their connections) from the neural network during training. This prevents units from co-adapting too much. During training, dropout samples from an exponential number of different "thinned" networks. At test time, it is easy to approximate the effect of averaging the predictions of all these thinned networks by simply using a single unthinned network that has smaller weights. This significantly reduces overfitting and gives major improvements over other regularization methods. We show that dropout improves the performance of neural networks on supervised learning tasks in vision, speech recognition, document classification and computational biology, obtaining state-of-the-art results on many benchmark data sets.

这是一门专门针对STEM学生开发的介绍性机器学习课程。我们的目标是为有兴趣的读者提供基础知识，以在自己的项目中使用机器学习，并将自己熟悉术语作为进一步阅读相关文献的基础。在这些讲义中，我们讨论受监督，无监督和强化学习。注释从没有神经网络的机器学习方法的说明开始，例如原理分析，T-SNE，聚类以及线性回归和线性分类器。我们继续介绍基本和先进的神经网络结构，例如密集的进料和常规神经网络，经常性的神经网络，受限的玻尔兹曼机器，（变性）自动编码器，生成的对抗性网络。讨论了潜在空间表示的解释性问题，并使用梦和对抗性攻击的例子。最后一部分致力于加强学习，我们在其中介绍了价值功能和政策学习的基本概念。

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a powerful model for sequential data. End-to-end training methods such as Connectionist Temporal Classification make it possible to train RNNs for sequence labelling problems where the input-output alignment is unknown. The combination of these methods with the Long Short-term Memory RNN architecture has proved particularly fruitful, delivering state-of-the-art results in cursive handwriting recognition. However RNN performance in speech recognition has so far been disappointing, with better results returned by deep feedforward networks. This paper investigates deep recurrent neural networks, which combine the multiple levels of representation that have proved so effective in deep networks with the flexible use of long range context that empowers RNNs. When trained end-to-end with suitable regularisation, we find that deep Long Short-term Memory RNNs achieve a test set error of 17.7% on the TIMIT phoneme recognition benchmark, which to our knowledge is the best recorded score.

The geospace environment is volatile and highly driven. Space weather has effects on Earth's magnetosphere that cause a dynamic and enigmatic response in the thermosphere, particularly on the evolution of neutral mass density. Many models exist that use space weather drivers to produce a density response, but these models are typically computationally expensive or inaccurate for certain space weather conditions. In response, this work aims to employ a probabilistic machine learning (ML) method to create an efficient surrogate for the Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIE-GCM), a physics-based thermosphere model. Our method leverages principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of TIE-GCM and recurrent neural networks to model the dynamic behavior of the thermosphere much quicker than the numerical model. The newly developed reduced order probabilistic emulator (ROPE) uses Long-Short Term Memory neural networks to perform time-series forecasting in the reduced state and provide distributions for future density. We show that across the available data, TIE-GCM ROPE has similar error to previous linear approaches while improving storm-time modeling. We also conduct a satellite propagation study for the significant November 2003 storm which shows that TIE-GCM ROPE can capture the position resulting from TIE-GCM density with < 5 km bias. Simultaneously, linear approaches provide point estimates that can result in biases of 7 - 18 km.

我们介绍了块状变压器，该变压器以序列的反复方式应用变压器层，并且相对于序列长度具有线性复杂性。我们的复发单元在训练过程中在代币的块而不是单个令牌上运行，并利用块内并行计算，以便有效利用加速器硬件。单元本身非常简单。它仅仅是一个变压器层：它使用自我注意事项和交叉注意力来有效计算大量状态向量和令牌上的复发函数。我们的设计部分受到LSTM单元的启发，它使用LSTM风格的大门，但它可以将典型的LSTM单元缩放为几个数量级。我们的复发实现在计算时间和参数计数中都具有相同的成本作为传统的变压器层，但是在很长的序列中，语言建模任务中的语言建模任务的困惑极大地改善了。我们的模型比远程变压器XL基线的表现宽大，同时运行的速度是两倍。我们证明了它在PG19（书籍），Arxiv论文和GitHub源代码上的有效性。我们的代码已发布为开​​源。

研究了自闭症数据集，以确定自闭症和健康组之间的差异。为此，分析了这两组的静止状态功能磁共振成像（RS-FMRI）数据，并创建了大脑区域之间的连接网络。开发了几个分类框架，以区分组之间的连接模式。比较了统计推断和精度的最佳模型，并分析了精度和模型解释性之间的权衡。最后，据报道，分类精度措施证明了我们框架的性能。我们的最佳模型可以以71％的精度将自闭症和健康的患者分类为多站点I数据。

Common to all different kinds of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is the intention to model relations between data points through time. When there is no immediate relationship between subsequent data points (like when the data points are generated at random, e.g.), we show that RNNs are still able to remember a few data points back into the sequence by memorizing them by heart using standard backpropagation. However, we also show that for classical RNNs, LSTM and GRU networks the distance of data points between recurrent calls that can be reproduced this way is highly limited (compared to even a loose connection between data points) and subject to various constraints imposed by the type and size of the RNN in question. This implies the existence of a hard limit (way below the information-theoretic one) for the distance between related data points within which RNNs are still able to recognize said relation.

The International Workshop on Reading Music Systems (WoRMS) is a workshop that tries to connect researchers who develop systems for reading music, such as in the field of Optical Music Recognition, with other researchers and practitioners that could benefit from such systems, like librarians or musicologists. The relevant topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: Music reading systems; Optical music recognition; Datasets and performance evaluation; Image processing on music scores; Writer identification; Authoring, editing, storing and presentation systems for music scores; Multi-modal systems; Novel input-methods for music to produce written music; Web-based Music Information Retrieval services; Applications and projects; Use-cases related to written music. These are the proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Reading Music Systems, held in Alicante on the 23rd of July 2021.

我们在在线环境中研究了非线性预测，并引入了混合模型，该模型通过端到端体系结构有效地减轻了对手工设计的功能的需求和传统非线性预测/回归方法的手动模型选择问题。特别是，我们使用递归结构从顺序信号中提取特征，同时保留状态信息，即历史记录和增强决策树以产生最终输出。该连接是以端到端方式的，我们使用随机梯度下降共同优化整个体系结构，我们还为此提供了向后的通过更新方程。特别是，我们采用了一个经常性的神经网络（LSTM）来从顺序数据中提取自适应特征，并提取梯度增强机械（Soft GBDT），以进行有效的监督回归。我们的框架是通用的，因此可以使用其他深度学习体系结构进行特征提取（例如RNN和GRU）和机器学习算法进行决策，只要它们是可区分的。我们证明了算法对合成数据的学习行为以及各种现实生活数据集对常规方法的显着性能改进。此外，我们公开分享提出的方法的源代码，以促进进一步的研究。

深度学习使用由其重量进行参数化的神经网络。通常通过调谐重量来直接最小化给定损耗功能来训练神经网络。在本文中，我们建议将权重重新参数转化为网络中各个节点的触发强度的目标。给定一组目标，可以计算使得发射强度最佳地满足这些目标的权重。有人认为，通过我们称之为级联解压缩的过程，使用培训的目标解决爆炸梯度的问题，并使损失功能表面更加光滑，因此导致更容易，培训更快，以及潜在的概括，神经网络。它还允许更容易地学习更深层次和经常性的网络结构。目标对重量的必要转换有额外的计算费用，这是在许多情况下可管理的。在目标空间中学习可以与现有的神经网络优化器相结合，以额外收益。实验结果表明了使用目标空间的速度，以及改进的泛化的示例，用于全连接的网络和卷积网络，以及调用和处理长时间序列的能力，并使用经常性网络进行自然语言处理。

The pre-dominant approach to language modeling to date is based on recurrent neural networks. Their success on this task is often linked to their ability to capture unbounded context. In this paper we develop a finite context approach through stacked convolutions, which can be more efficient since they allow parallelization over sequential tokens. We propose a novel simplified gating mechanism that outperforms Oord et al. (2016b) and investigate the impact of key architectural decisions. The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art on the WikiText-103 benchmark, even though it features longterm dependencies, as well as competitive results on the Google Billion Words benchmark. Our model reduces the latency to score a sentence by an order of magnitude compared to a recurrent baseline. To our knowledge, this is the first time a non-recurrent approach is competitive with strong recurrent models on these large scale language tasks.

We explore an original strategy for building deep networks, based on stacking layers of denoising autoencoders which are trained locally to denoise corrupted versions of their inputs. The resulting algorithm is a straightforward variation on the stacking of ordinary autoencoders. It is however shown on a benchmark of classification problems to yield significantly lower classification error, thus bridging the performance gap with deep belief networks (DBN), and in several cases surpassing it. Higher level representations learnt in this purely unsupervised fashion also help boost the performance of subsequent SVM classifiers. Qualitative experiments show that, contrary to ordinary autoencoders, denoising autoencoders are able to learn Gabor-like edge detectors from natural image patches and larger stroke detectors from digit images. This work clearly establishes the value of using a denoising criterion as a tractable unsupervised objective to guide the learning of useful higher level representations.

基于签名的技术使数学洞察力洞悉不断发展的数据的复杂流之间的相互作用。这些见解可以自然地转化为理解流数据的数值方法，也许是由于它们的数学精度，已被证明在数据不规则而不是固定的情况下分析流的数据以及数据和数据的尺寸很有用样本量均为中等。了解流的多模式数据是指数的：$ d $ d $的字母中的$ n $字母中的一个单词可以是$ d^n $消息之一。签名消除了通过采样不规则性引起的指数级噪声，但仍然存在指数量的信息。这项调查旨在留在可以直接管理指数缩放的域中。在许多问题中，可伸缩性问题是一个重要的挑战，但需要另一篇调查文章和进一步的想法。这项调查描述了一系列环境集足够小以消除大规模机器学习的可能性，并且可以有效地使用一小部分免费上下文和原则性功能。工具的数学性质可以使他们对非数学家的使用恐吓。本文中介绍的示例旨在弥合此通信差距，并提供从机器学习环境中绘制的可进行的工作示例。笔记本可以在线提供这些示例中的一些。这项调查是基于伊利亚·雪佛兰（Ilya Chevryev）和安德烈·科米利津（Andrey Kormilitzin）的早期论文，它们在这种机械开发的较早时刻大致相似。本文说明了签名提供的理论见解是如何在对应用程序数据的分析中简单地实现的，这种方式在很大程度上对数据类型不可知。