# Gated Recurrent Neural Tensor Network

**Authors:** Andros Tjandra, Sakriani Sakti, Ruli Manurung, Mirna Adriani and, Satoshi Nakamura

arXiv: 1706.02222 · 2017-06-08

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel RNN architecture that combines gating mechanisms with tensor products to better model long-term dependencies and complex input interactions, improving language modeling performance.

## Contribution

The paper proposes LSTMRNTN and GRURNTN, integrating tensor products into LSTM and GRU architectures to enhance their expressive power for sequential data modeling.

## Key findings

- Significant performance improvements over baseline models in language tasks
- Effective modeling of long-term dependencies with the new architectures
- Enhanced input and hidden layer interactions through tensor products

## Abstract

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), which are a powerful scheme for modeling temporal and sequential data need to capture long-term dependencies on datasets and represent them in hidden layers with a powerful model to capture more information from inputs. For modeling long-term dependencies in a dataset, the gating mechanism concept can help RNNs remember and forget previous information. Representing the hidden layers of an RNN with more expressive operations (i.e., tensor products) helps it learn a more complex relationship between the current input and the previous hidden layer information. These ideas can generally improve RNN performances. In this paper, we proposed a novel RNN architecture that combine the concepts of gating mechanism and the tensor product into a single model. By combining these two concepts into a single RNN, our proposed models learn long-term dependencies by modeling with gating units and obtain more expressive and direct interaction between input and hidden layers using a tensor product on 3-dimensional array (tensor) weight parameters. We use Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) RNN and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) RNN and combine them with a tensor product inside their formulations. Our proposed RNNs, which are called a Long-Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Tensor Network (LSTMRNTN) and Gated Recurrent Unit Recurrent Neural Tensor Network (GRURNTN), are made by combining the LSTM and GRU RNN models with the tensor product. We conducted experiments with our proposed models on word-level and character-level language modeling tasks and revealed that our proposed models significantly improved their performance compared to our baseline models.

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