2016 HybridComputingUsingaNeuralNetw

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Subject Headings: Differentiable Neural Computer.

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Artificial neural networks are remarkably adept at sensory processing, sequence learning and reinforcement learning, but are limited in their ability to represent variables and data structures and to store data over long timescales, owing to the lack of an external memory. Here we introduce a machine learning model called a differentiable neural computer (DNC), which consists of a neural network that can read from and write to an external memory matrix, analogous to the random-access memory in a conventional computer. Like a conventional computer, it can use its memory to represent and manipulate complex data structures, but, like a neural network, it can learn to do so from data. When trained with supervised learning, we demonstrate that a DNC can successfully answer synthetic questions designed to emulate reasoning and inference problems in natural language. We show that it can learn tasks such as finding the shortest path between specified points and inferring the missing links in randomly generated graphs, and then generalize these tasks to specific graphs such as transport networks and family trees. When trained with reinforcement learning, a DNC can complete a moving blocks puzzle in which changing goals are specified by sequences of symbols. Taken together, our results demonstrate that DNCs have the capacity to solve complex, structured tasks that are inaccessible to neural networks without external read–write memory.

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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
2016 HybridComputingUsingaNeuralNetwKoray Kavukcuoglu
Alex Graves
Greg Wayne
Ivo Danihelka
Georg Ostrovski
Helen King
Demis Hassabis (1976-)
Malcolm Reynolds
Tim Harley
Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska
Edward Grefenstette
Tiago Ramalho
John Agapiou
Karl Moritz Hermann
Yori Zwols
Adam Cain
Christopher Summerfield
Phil Blunsom
Sergio Gómez Colmenarejo
Adrià Puigdomènech Badia
Hybrid Computing Using a Neural Network with Dynamic External Memory10.1038/nature201012016