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Coupled Oscillatory Recurrent Neural Network (coRNN): An accurate and (gradient) stable architecture for learning long time dependencies

2 Oct 2020ICLR 2021 1arXiv:2010.00951archive 2025-07-28

T. Konstantin Rusch, Siddhartha Mishra

Circuits of biological neurons, such as in the functional parts of the brain can be modeled as networks of coupled oscillators. Inspired by the ability of these systems to express a rich set of outputs while keeping (gradients of) state variables bounded, we propose a novel architecture for recurrent neural networks. Our proposed RNN is based on a time-discretization of a system of second-order ordinary differential equations, modeling networks of controlled nonlinear oscillators. We prove precise bounds on the gradients of the hidden states, leading to the mitigation of the exploding and vanishing gradient problem for this RNN. Experiments show that the proposed RNN is comparable in performance to the state of the art on a variety of benchmarks, demonstrating the potential of this architecture to provide stable and accurate RNNs for processing complex sequential data.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Sentiment Analysis IMDb coRNN Accuracy 87.4% #43 of 49 Archive leaderboard report
Sequential Image Classification Sequential MNIST coRNN Permuted Accuracy 97.34% #11 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Sequential Image Classification Sequential MNIST coRNN Unpermuted Accuracy 99.4% #11 of 30 Archive leaderboard report
Sequential Image Classification noise padded CIFAR-10 coRNN % Test Accuracy 59.0 #4 of 7 Archive leaderboard report

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