arXiv (Cornell University)
Feedforward Sequential Memory Neural Networks without Recurrent Feedback
October 2015 • Shiliang Zhang, Hui Jiang, Si Wei, Li-Rong Dai
We introduce a new structure for memory neural networks, called feedforward sequential memory networks (FSMN), which can learn long-term dependency without using recurrent feedback. The proposed FSMN is a standard feedforward neural networks equipped with learnable sequential memory blocks in the hidden layers. In this work, we have applied FSMN to several language modeling (LM) tasks. Experimental results have shown that the memory blocks in FSMN can learn effective representations of long history. Experiments ha…