Neural Turing machine

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A neural Turing machine (NTM) is a recurrent neural network model of a Turing machine. The approach was published by Alex Graves et al. in 2014. [1] NTMs combine the fuzzy pattern matching capabilities of neural networks with the algorithmic power of programmable computers.

An NTM has a neural network controller coupled to external memory resources, which it interacts with through attentional mechanisms. The memory interactions are differentiable end-to-end, making it possible to optimize them using gradient descent. [2] An NTM with a long short-term memory (LSTM) network controller can infer simple algorithms such as copying, sorting, and associative recall from examples alone. [1]

The authors of the original NTM paper did not publish their source code. [1] The first stable open-source implementation was published in 2018 at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, receiving a best-paper award. [3] [4] [5] Other open source implementations of NTMs exist but as of 2018 they are not sufficiently stable for production use. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] The developers either report that the gradients of their implementation sometimes become NaN during training for unknown reasons and cause training to fail; [10] [11] [9] report slow convergence; [7] [6] or do not report the speed of learning of their implementation. [12] [8]

Differentiable neural computers are an outgrowth of Neural Turing machines, with attention mechanisms that control where the memory is active, and improve performance. [13]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Deep Minds: An Interview with Google's Alex Graves & Koray Kavukcuoglu" . Retrieved May 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ Collier, Mark; Beel, Joeran (2018), "Implementing Neural Turing Machines", Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2018, Springer International Publishing, pp. 94–104, arXiv: 1807.08518 , Bibcode:2018arXiv180708518C, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01424-7_10, ISBN   9783030014230, S2CID   49908746
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  5. ↑ Beel, Joeran (2018-10-20). "Best-Paper Award for our Publication "Implementing Neural Turing Machines" at the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks | Prof. Joeran Beel (TCD Dublin)". Trinity College Dublin, School of Computer Science and Statistics Blog. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
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