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A Theoretically Grounded Application of Dropout in Recurrent Neural Networks

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abstract

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) stand at the forefront of many recent developments in deep learning. Yet a major difficulty with these models is their tendency to overfit, with dropout shown to fail when applied to recurrent layers. Recent results at the intersection of Bayesian modelling and deep learning offer a Bayesian interpretation of common deep learning techniques such as dropout. This grounding of dropout in approximate Bayesian inference suggests an extension of the theoretical results, offering insights into the use of dropout with RNN models. We apply this new variational inference based dropout technique in LSTM and GRU models, assessing it on language modelling and sentiment analysis tasks. The new approach outperforms existing techniques, and to the best of our knowledge improves on the single model state-of-the-art in language modelling with the Penn Treebank (73.4 test perplexity). This extends our arsenal of variational tools in deep learning.

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cs.CL 1 cs.LG 1

years

2025 1 2016 1

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Pointer Sentinel Mixture Models

cs.CL · 2016-09-26 · conditional · novelty 7.0

Pointer sentinel-LSTM mixes context copying with softmax prediction to reach 70.9 perplexity on Penn Treebank using fewer parameters than standard LSTMs.

TabICL: A Tabular Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Large Data

cs.LG · 2025-02-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

TabICL scales in-context learning to large tabular data via column-then-row attention for row embeddings followed by a transformer, matching TabPFNv2 speed and performance while outperforming it and CatBoost on datasets over 10K samples.

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  • Pointer Sentinel Mixture Models cs.CL · 2016-09-26 · conditional · none · ref 5

    Pointer sentinel-LSTM mixes context copying with softmax prediction to reach 70.9 perplexity on Penn Treebank using fewer parameters than standard LSTMs.

  • TabICL: A Tabular Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Large Data cs.LG · 2025-02-08 · unverdicted · none · ref 165 · internal anchor

    TabICL scales in-context learning to large tabular data via column-then-row attention for row embeddings followed by a transformer, matching TabPFNv2 speed and performance while outperforming it and CatBoost on datasets over 10K samples.