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MomentumRNN: Integrating Momentum into Recurrent Neural Networks

@article{Nguyen2020MomentumRNNIM,
title={MomentumRNN: Integrating Momentum into Recurrent Neural Networks},
author={Tan Nguyen and Richard Baraniuk and A. Bertozzi and S. Osher and Baorui Wang},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2020},
volume={abs/2006.06919}
}
Designing deep neural networks is an art that often involves an expensive search over candidate architectures. To overcome this for recurrent neural nets (RNNs), we establish a connection between the hidden state dynamics in an RNN and gradient descent (GD). We then integrate momentum into this framework and propose a new family of RNNs, called {\em MomentumRNNs}. We theoretically prove and numerically demonstrate that MomentumRNNs alleviate the vanishing gradient issue in training RNNs. We…
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