most citedThe unreasonable effectiveness of the forget gate

70 citations · 120 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.NE2018★ 70 cited

The unreasonable effectiveness of the forget gate

Jos van der Westhuizen, Joan Lasenby

Given the success of the gated recurrent unit, a natural question is whether all the gates of the long short-term memory (LSTM) network are necessary. Previous research has shown t…

stat.ML2017★ 6 cited

Learning a Generative Model for Validity in Complex Discrete Structures

David Janz, Jos van der Westhuizen, Brooks Paige +2

Deep generative models have been successfully used to learn representations for high-dimensional discrete spaces by representing discrete objects as sequences and employing powerfu…

stat.ML2017★ 15 cited

Actively Learning what makes a Discrete Sequence Valid

David Janz, Jos van der Westhuizen, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Deep learning techniques have been hugely successful for traditional supervised and unsupervised machine learning problems. In large part, these techniques solve continuous optimiz…

stat.ML2017★ 15 cited

Bayesian LSTMs in medicine

Jos van der Westhuizen, Joan Lasenby

The medical field stands to see significant benefits from the recent advances in deep learning. Knowing the uncertainty in the decision made by any machine learning algorithm is of…

stat.ML2017★ 14 cited

Techniques for visualizing LSTMs applied to electrocardiograms

Jos van der Westhuizen, Joan Lasenby

This paper explores four different visualization techniques for long short-term memory (LSTM) networks applied to continuous-valued time series. On the datasets analysed, we find t…