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arxiv 1410.3916 v11 pith:QS5YDFYC submitted 2014-10-15 cs.AI cs.CLstat.ML

Memory Networks

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keywords memorylong-termmodelsnetworkstaskactsansweranswering
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We describe a new class of learning models called memory networks. Memory networks reason with inference components combined with a long-term memory component; they learn how to use these jointly. The long-term memory can be read and written to, with the goal of using it for prediction. We investigate these models in the context of question answering (QA) where the long-term memory effectively acts as a (dynamic) knowledge base, and the output is a textual response. We evaluate them on a large-scale QA task, and a smaller, but more complex, toy task generated from a simulated world. In the latter, we show the reasoning power of such models by chaining multiple supporting sentences to answer questions that require understanding the intension of verbs.

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