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most citedA Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself

15 citations · 56 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2025

Mixture of Sparse Attention: Content-Based Learnable Sparse Attention via Expert-Choice Routing

Piotr Piękos, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Recent advances in large language models highlighted the excessive quadratic cost of self-attention. Despite the significant research efforts, subquadratic attention methods still…

cs.LG2025

Measuring In-Context Computation Complexity via Hidden State Prediction

Vincent Herrmann, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Detecting when a neural sequence model does "interesting" computation is an open problem. The next token prediction loss is a poor indicator: Low loss can stem from trivially predi…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MoEUT: Mixture-of-Experts Universal Transformers

Róbert Csordás, Kazuki Irie, Jürgen Schmidhuber +2

Previous work on Universal Transformers (UTs) has demonstrated the importance of parameter sharing across layers. By allowing recurrence in depth, UTs have advantages over standard…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Metalearning Continual Learning Algorithms

Kazuki Irie, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

General-purpose learning systems should improve themselves in open-ended fashion in ever-changing environments. Conventional learning algorithms for neural networks, however, suffe…

cs.LG2023

Approximating Two-Layer Feedforward Networks for Efficient Transformers

Róbert Csordás, Kazuki Irie, Jürgen Schmidhuber

How to reduce compute and memory requirements of neural networks (NNs) without sacrificing performance? Many recent works use sparse Mixtures of Experts (MoEs) to build resource-ef…

cs.LG2023

Practical Computational Power of Linear Transformers and Their Recurrent and Self-Referential Extensions

Kazuki Irie, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Recent studies of the computational power of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) reveal a hierarchy of RNN architectures, given real-time and finite-precision assumptions. Here we stu…

cs.AI2023★ 8 cited

Mindstorms in Natural Language-Based Societies of Mind

Mingchen Zhuge, Haozhe Liu, Francesco Faccio +23

Both Minsky's "society of mind" and Schmidhuber's "learning to think" inspire diverse societies of large multimodal neural networks (NNs) that solve problems by interviewing each o…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Self-Organising Neural Discrete Representation Learning à la Kohonen

Kazuki Irie, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Unsupervised learning of discrete representations in neural networks (NNs) from continuous ones is essential for many modern applications. Vector Quantisation (VQ) has become popul…

cs.LG2022

CTL++: Evaluating Generalization on Never-Seen Compositional Patterns of Known Functions, and Compatibility of Neural Representations

Róbert Csordás, Kazuki Irie, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Well-designed diagnostic tasks have played a key role in studying the failure of neural nets (NNs) to generalize systematically. Famous examples include SCAN and Compositional Tabl…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

The Dual Form of Neural Networks Revisited: Connecting Test Time Predictions to Training Patterns via Spotlights of Attention

Kazuki Irie, Róbert Csordás, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Linear layers in neural networks (NNs) trained by gradient descent can be expressed as a key-value memory system which stores all training datapoints and the initial weights, and p…

cs.LG2022★ 15 cited

A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself

Kazuki Irie, Imanol Schlag, Róbert Csordás +1

The weight matrix (WM) of a neural network (NN) is its program. The programs of many traditional NNs are learned through gradient descent in some error function, then remain fixed.…

cs.LG2021

Improving Baselines in the Wild

Kazuki Irie, Imanol Schlag, Róbert Csordás +1

We share our experience with the recently released WILDS benchmark, a collection of ten datasets dedicated to developing models and training strategies which are robust to domain s…

cs.LG2021★ 13 cited

Going Beyond Linear Transformers with Recurrent Fast Weight Programmers

Kazuki Irie, Imanol Schlag, Róbert Csordás +1

Transformers with linearised attention (''linear Transformers'') have demonstrated the practical scalability and effectiveness of outer product-based Fast Weight Programmers (FWPs)…

cs.NE2020★ 12 cited

Are Neural Nets Modular? Inspecting Functional Modularity Through Differentiable Weight Masks

Róbert Csordás, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Jürgen Schmidhuber

Neural networks (NNs) whose subnetworks implement reusable functions are expected to offer numerous advantages, including compositionality through efficient recombination of functi…