Awesome Recurrent Neural Networks
A curated list of resources dedicated to recurrent neural networks (closely related todeep learning).
Maintainers -Jiwon Kim,Myungsub Choi
We have pages for other topics:awesome-deep-vision,awesome-random-forest
Table of Contents
Codes
Theory
Lectures
Books / Thesis
Network Variants
Surveys
Applications
Language Modeling
Speech Recognition
Machine Translation
Conversation Modeling
Image Captioning
Video Captioning
Question Answering
Image Generation
Turing Machines
Robotics
Datasets
Codes
Theano- Python
Simple IPythontutorial on Theano
Deep Learning Tutorials
RNN for semantic parsing of speech
LSTM network for sentiment analysis
Keras: Theano-based Deep Learning Library
theano-rnnby Graham Taylor
Passage: Library for text analysis with RNNs
Caffe- C++ with MATLAB/Python wrappers
LRCNby Jeff Donahue
Torch- Lua
char-rnnby Andrej Karpathy : multi-layer RNN/LSTM/GRU for training/sampling from character-level language models
LSTMby Wojciech Zaremba : Long Short Term Memory Units to train a language model on word level Penn Tree Bank dataset
Oxfordby Nando de Freitas : Oxford Computer Science - Machine Learning 2015 Practicals
rnnby Nicholas Leonard : general library for implementing RNN, LSTM, BRNN and BLSTM (highly unit tested).
Etc.
RNNLIBby Alex Graves : C++ based LSTM library
RNNLMby Tomas Mikolov : C++ based simple code
neuraltalkby Andrej Karpathy : numpy-based RNN/LSTM implementation
gistby Andrej Karpathy : raw numpy code that implements an efficient batched LSTM
Theory
Lectures
Stanford NLP (CS224d) by Richard Socher
Lecture Note 3: neural network basics
Lecture Note 4: RNN language models, bi-directional RNN, GRU, LSTM
OxfordMachine Learningby Nando de Freitas
Lecture 12: Recurrent neural networks and LSTMs
Lecture 13: (guest lecture) Alex Graves on Hallucination with RNNs
Books / Thesis
Alex Graves (2008)
Supervised Sequence Labelling with Recurrent Neural Networks
Tomas Mikolov (2012)
Statistical Language Models based on Neural Networks
Ilya Sutskever (2013)
Training Recurrent Neural Networks
Richard Socher (2014)
Recursive Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision
Network Variants
Bi-directional RNN [Paper]
Mike Schuster and Kuldip K. Paliwal,Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks, Trans. on Signal Processing 1997
LSTM [Paper]
Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber,Long Short-Term Memory, Neural Computation 1997
Multi-dimensional RNN [Paper]
Alex Graves, Santiago Fernandez, and Jurgen Schmidhuber,Multi-Dimensional Recurrent Neural Networks, ICANN 2007
GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) [Paper]
Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Berrienboer, Caglar Gulcehre, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Fethi Bougares, Holger Schwenk, and Yoshua Bengio,Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation, arXiv:1406.1078 / EMNLP 2014
GFRNN [Paper-arXiv] [Paper-ICML] [Supplementary]
Junyoung Chung, Caglar Gulcehre, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio,Gated Feedback Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1502.02367 / ICML 2015
Tree-Structured LSTM [Paper]
Kai Sheng Tai, Richard Socher, and Christopher D. Manning, arXiv:1503.00075 / ACL 2015
Grid LSTM [Paper]
Nal Kalchbrenner, Ivo Danihelka, and Alex Graves,Grid Long Short-Term Memory, arXiv:1507.01526
Surveys
Klaus Greff, Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, Jan Koutnik, Bas R. Steunebrink, Jurgen Schmidhuber,LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey, arXiv:1503.04069
Zachary C. Lipton,A Critical Review of Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Learning, arXiv:1506.00019
Andrej Karpathy, Justin Johnson, Li Fei-Fei,Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks, arXiv:1506.02078
Rafal Jozefowicz, Wojciech Zaremba, Ilya Sutskever,An Empirical Exploration of Recurrent Network Architectures, ICML, 2015.
Applications
Language Modeling
Tomas Mikolov, Martin Karafiat, Lukas Burget, Jan "Honza" Cernocky, Sanjeev Khudanpur,Recurrent Neural Network based Language Model, Interspeech 2010 [Paper]
Tomas Mikolov, Stefan Kombrink, Lukas Burget, Jan "Honza" Cernocky, Sanjeev Khudanpur,Extensions of Recurrent Neural Network Language Model, ICASSP 2011 [Paper]
Stefan Kombrink, Tomas Mikolov, Martin Karafiat, Lukas Burget,Recurrent Neural Network based Language Modeling in Meeting Recognition, Interspeech 2011 [Paper]
Jiwei Li, Minh-Thang Luong, and Dan Jurafsky,A Hierarchical Neural Autoencoder for Paragraphs and Documents, ACL 2015 [Paper], [Code]
Speech Recognition
Geoffrey Hinton, Li Deng, Dong Yu, George E. Dahl, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Navdeep Jaitly, Andrew Senior, Vincent Vanhoucke, Patrick Nguyen, Tara N. Sainath, and Brian Kingsbury,Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition, IEEE Signam Processing Magazine 2012 [Paper]
Alex Graves, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, and Geoffrey Hinton,Speech Recognition with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1303.5778 / ICASSP 2013 [Paper]
Jan Chorowski, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio,Attention-Based Models for Speech Recognition, arXiv:1506.07503 [Paper]
Machine Translation
Univ. Montreal [Paper]
Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Berrienboer, Caglar Gulcehre, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Fethi Bougares, Holger Schwenk, and Yoshua Bengio,Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation, arXiv:1406.1078 / EMNLP 2014
Google [Paper]
Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc V. Le,Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks, arXiv:1409.3215 / NIPS 2014
Univ. Montreal [Paper]
Dzmitry Bahdanau, KyungHyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio,Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate, arXiv:1409.0473 / ICLR 2015
Google + NYU [Paper]
Minh-Thang Luong, Ilya Sutskever, Quoc V. Le, Oriol Vinyals, and Wojciech Zaremba,Addressing the Rare Word Problem in Neural Machine Transltaion, ACL 2015
Conversation Modeling
Lifeng Shang, Zhengdong Lu, and Hang Li,Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation, arXiv:1503.02364 / ACL 2015 [Paper]
Oriol Vinyals and Quoc V. Le,A Neural Conversational Model, arXiv:1506.05869 [Paper]
Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian V. Serban, and Joelle Pineau,The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems, arXiv:1506.08909 [Paper]
Image Captioning
UCLA + Baidu [Web] [Paper-arXiv1], [Paper-arXiv2]
Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, and Alan L. Yuille,Explain Images with Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1410.1090
Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, Zhiheng Huang, and Alan L. Yuille,Deep Captioning with Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks (m-RNN), arXiv:1412.6632 / ICLR 2015
Univ. Toronto [Paper] [Web demo]
Ryan Kiros, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Richard S. Zemel,Unifying Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Multimodal Neural Language Models, arXiv:1411.2539 / TACL 2015
Berkeley [Web] [Paper]
Jeff Donahue, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sergio Guadarrama, Marcus Rohrbach, Subhashini Venugopalan, Kate Saenko, and Trevor Darrell,Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description, arXiv:1411.4389 / CVPR 2015
Google [Paper]
Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio, and Dumitru Erhan,Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator, arXiv:1411.4555 / CVPR 2015
Microsoft [Paper]
Hao Fang, Saurabh Gupta, Forrest Iandola, Rupesh Srivastava, Li Deng, Piotr Dollar, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Margaret Mitchell, John C. Platt, Lawrence Zitnick, and Geoffrey Zweig,From Captions to Visual Concepts and Back, arXiv:1411.4952 / CVPR 2015
Microsoft [Paper-arXiv], [Paper-CVPR]
Xinlei Chen, and C. Lawrence Zitnick,Learning a Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation
Xinlei Chen, and C. Lawrence Zitnick,Mind’s Eye: A Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation, CVPR 2015
Univ. Montreal + Univ. Toronto [Web] [Paper]
Kelvin Xu, Jimmy Lei Ba, Ryan Kiros, Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Richard S. Zemel, and Yoshua Bengio,Show, Attend, and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention, arXiv:1502.03044 / ICML 2015
Idiap + EPFL + Facebook [Paper]
Remi Lebret, Pedro O. Pinheiro, and Ronan Collobert,Phrase-based Image Captioning, arXiv:1502.03671 / ICML 2015
UCLA + Baidu [Paper]
Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, Zhiheng Huang, and Alan L. Yuille,Learning like a Child: Fast Novel Visual Concept Learning from Sentence Descriptions of Images, arXiv:1504.06692
Video Captioning
Berkeley [Web] [Paper]
Jeff Donahue, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sergio Guadarrama, Marcus Rohrbach, Subhashini Venugopalan, Kate Saenko, and Trevor Darrell,Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description, arXiv:1411.4389 / CVPR 2015
UT Austin + UML + Berkeley [Paper]
Subhashini Venugopalan, Huijuan Xu, Jeff Donahue, Marcus Rohrbach, Raymond Mooney, and Kate Saenko,Translating Videos to Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1412.4729
Microsoft [Paper]
Yingwei Pan, Tao Mei, Ting Yao, Houqiang Li, and Yong Rui,Joint Modeling Embedding and Translation to Bridge Video and Language, arXiv:1505.01861
UT Austin + Berkeley + UML [Paper]
Subhashini Venugopalan, Marcus Rohrbach, Jeff Donahue, Raymond Mooney, Trevor Darrell, and Kate Saenko,Sequence to Sequence--Video to Text, arXiv:1505.00487
Question Answering
Virginia Tech. + MSR [Web] [Paper]
Stanislaw Antol, Aishwarya Agrawal, Jiasen Lu, Margaret Mitchell, Dhruv Batra, C. Lawrence Zitnick, and Devi Parikh,VQA: Visual Question Answering, arXiv:1505.00468 / CVPR 2015 SUNw:Scene Understanding workshop
MPI + Berkeley [Web] [Paper]
Mateusz Malinowski, Marcus Rohrbach, and Mario Fritz,Ask Your Neurons: A Neural-based Approach to Answering Questions about Images, arXiv:1505.01121
Univ. Toronto [Paper] [Dataset]
Mengye Ren, Ryan Kiros, and Richard Zemel,Exploring Models and Data for Image Question Answering, arXiv:1505.02074 / ICML 2015 deep learning workshop
Baidu + UCLA [Paper] [Dataset]
Hauyuan Gao, Junhua Mao, Jie Zhou, Zhiheng Huang, Lei Wang, and Wei Xu,Are You Talking to a Machine? Dataset and Methods for Multilingual Image Question Answering, arXiv:1505.05612
Image Generation
Karol Gregor, Ivo Danihelka, Alex Graves, Danilo J. Rezende, and Daan Wierstra,DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network for Image Generation,ICML 2015 [Paper]
Angeliki Lazaridou, Dat T. Nguyen, R. Bernardi, and M. Baroni,Unveiling the Dreams of Word Embeddings: Towards Language-Driven Image Generation,arXiv:1506.03500 [Paper]
Lucas Theis and Matthias Bethge,Generative Image Modeling Using Spatial LSTMs,arXiv:1506.03478 [Paper]
Turing Machines
A.Graves, G. Wayne, and I. Danihelka.,Neural Turing Machines,arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5401 [Paper]
Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra, Antoine Bordes,Memory Networks,arXiv:1410.3916 [Paper]
Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, and Rob Fergus,End-To-End Memory Networks, arXiv:1503.08895 [Paper]
Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever,Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines,arXiv:1505.00521 [Paper]
Robotics
Marvin Zhang, Sergey Levine, Zoe McCarthy, Chelsea Finn, Pieter Abbeel,Policy Learning with Continuous Memory States for Partially Observed Robotic Control,arXiv:1507.01273.[Paper]
Datasets
Speech Recognition
OpenSLR(Open Speech and Language Resources)
LibriSpeech ASR corpus
VoxForge
Image Captioning
Flickr 8k
Flickr 30k
Microsoft COCO
Image Question Answering - all based on MS COCO images
VQA
Image QA
[Multilingual Image QA] : in Chinese, with English translation