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Introduction to Deep Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)

• Definition: RNNs are designed to handle sequential data by maintaining a hidden state
that captures information from previous time steps. They are particularly effective for
tasks where the order of inputs is significant.

• Key Characteristics:

o Recurrent Connections: Enable the network to maintain and update a memory

of previous inputs.

o Sequence Processing: Suitable for tasks like time series prediction, language
modeling, and sequence classification.

2. Backpropagation Through Time (BPTT)

• Definition: An extension of the backpropagation algorithm for training RNNs. It unrolls

the RNN through time, treating it as a feedforward network.

• Steps:

o Unroll the Network: Create copies of the network for each time step.

o Forward Pass: Calculate the outputs for each time step.

o Calculate Loss: Compute the loss at each time step.

o Backward Pass: Backpropagate the loss through each time step to update the
weights.

• Challenges: Computationally expensive and can lead to vanishing/exploding gradients.

3. Vanishing and Exploding Gradients

• Vanishing Gradients: Gradients become too small, causing the network to stop
learning effectively.

o Solution: Use activation functions like ReLU, and architectures like LSTMs and
GRUs.

• Exploding Gradients: Gradients become too large, causing unstable updates and
divergent behavior.

o Solution: Gradient clipping, which limits the gradient's magnitude.

4. Truncated BPTT
 • Definition: A method to reduce the computational load of BPTT by truncating the
backpropagation to a fixed number of time steps.

• Steps:

o Truncate the Sequence: Divide the sequence into smaller chunks.

o Apply BPTT: Perform BPTT within each chunk.

• Advantages: Reduces computational cost and mitigates vanishing/exploding gradients.

5. Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs)

• Definition: A type of RNN that uses gating mechanisms to control the flow of
information, addressing the vanishing gradient problem.

• Components:

o Update Gate: zt=σ(Wz⋅[ht−1,xt])z_t = \sigma(W_z \cdot [h_{t-1}, x_t])

▪ Controls how much of the past information to retain.

o Reset Gate: rt=σ(Wr⋅[ht−1,xt])r_t = \sigma(W_r \cdot [h_{t-1}, x_t])

▪ Controls how much of the past information to forget.

o New Memory Content: h~t=tanh⁡(W⋅[rt∗ht−1,xt])\tilde{h}_t = \tanh(W \cdot

[r_t * h_{t-1}, x_t])

o Final Memory at Time t: ht=zt∗ht−1+(1−zt)∗h~th_t = z_t * h_{t-1} + (1 - z_t) *

\tilde{h}_t

6. Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)

• Definition: A type of RNN that uses a more complex gating mechanism to capture long-
term dependencies and solve the vanishing gradient problem.

• Components:

o Forget Gate: ft=σ(Wf⋅[ht−1,xt]+bf)f_t = \sigma(W_f \cdot [h_{t-1}, x_t] + b_f)

▪ Determines what information to discard from the cell state.

o Input Gate: it=σ(Wi⋅[ht−1,xt]+bi)i_t = \sigma(W_i \cdot [h_{t-1}, x_t] + b_i)

▪ Decides what new information to add to the cell state.

o Cell State Update: C~t=tanh⁡(WC⋅[ht−1,xt]+bC)\tilde{C}_t = \tanh(W_C \cdot

[h_{t-1}, x_t] + b_C)
 o Cell State: Ct=ft∗Ct−1+it∗C~tC_t = f_t * C_{t-1} + i_t * \tilde{C}_t

o Output Gate: ot=σ(Wo⋅[ht−1,xt]+bo)o_t = \sigma(W_o \cdot [h_{t-1}, x_t] +

b_o)

▪ Determines what part of the cell state to output.

o Hidden State: ht=ot∗tanh⁡(Ct)h_t = o_t * \tanh(C_t)

7. Solving the Vanishing Gradient Problem with LSTMs

• Mechanism: LSTMs use cell states and gating mechanisms to maintain a constant flow
of gradients, preserving long-term dependencies and addressing the vanishing
gradient problem.

8. Encoding and Decoding in RNN Network

• Encoding: The process of converting input sequences into fixed-size context vectors
that capture essential information.

o Encoder: An RNN that processes the input sequence and produces a context
vector.

• Decoding: The process of generating output sequences from the context vectors.

o Decoder: An RNN that takes the context vector and generates the output
sequence.

9. Attention Mechanism

• Definition: A technique that allows the model to focus on specific parts of the input
sequence when making predictions, enhancing performance on tasks with long-range
dependencies.

• Types:

o Additive Attention: Combines the hidden states and context vectors additively.

▪ Formula: eij=vTtanh⁡(Whhi+Wssj−1)e_{ij} = v^T \tanh(W_h h_i + W_s

s_{j-1})

o Multiplicative (Dot-Product) Attention: Uses a dot product between hidden

states and context vectors.

▪ Formula: eij=hiTWasj−1e_{ij} = h_i^T W_a s_{j-1}

10. Attention over Images

 • Definition: Extends the attention mechanism to image data, allowing the model to
focus on specific regions of an image.

• Application: Used in image captioning, where the model generates descriptions based
on focused image regions.

o Example: Show, Attend, and Tell model for image captioning.

11. Hierarchical Attention

• Definition: A multi-level attention mechanism that allows the model to focus on

different parts of the input at different levels of abstraction.

• Application: Used in hierarchical sequence processing, such as document classification

and multi-level sequence modeling.

12. Directed Graphical Models

• Definition: Probabilistic models represented as directed graphs, where nodes

represent random variables and edges represent conditional dependencies.

• Types:

o Bayesian Networks: Directed acyclic graphs representing joint probability

distributions. Used for tasks like inference and learning in probabilistic models.

o Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs): Extend Bayesian networks to model

temporal sequences. Used in applications like speech recognition and time
series prediction.

13. Applications of Deep RNN in Image Processing

• Image Captioning: Combining CNNs for feature extraction and RNNs for sequence
generation to produce textual descriptions of images.

• Image Generation: Using RNNs to generate new images based on learned patterns and
sequences.

14. Applications of Deep RNN in Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• Text Generation: Generating coherent and contextually relevant text sequences based
on input data.

• Machine Translation: Translating text from one language to another using sequence-
to-sequence models with attention mechanisms.
 • Sentiment Analysis: Analyzing the sentiment of text by capturing contextual
information and understanding the sentiment expressed.

15. Applications of Deep RNN in Speech Recognition

• Speech-to-Text: Converting spoken language into written text by capturing temporal

dependencies in the audio signal.

• Speaker Identification: Recognizing and identifying speakers based on their unique

speech patterns.

16. Applications of Deep RNN in Video Analytics

• Action Recognition: Identifying and classifying actions and activities in video

sequences.

• Video Captioning