Learning Unambiguous Reduced Sequence Descriptions

Do you want your neural net algorithm to learn sequences? Do not lim(cid:173) it yourself to conventional gradient descent (or approximations thereof). Instead, use your sequence learning algorithm (any will do) to implement the following method for history compression. No matter what your fi(cid:173) nal goals are, train a network to predict its next input from the previous ones. Since only unpredictable inputs convey new information, ignore all predictable inputs but let all unexpected inputs (plus information about the time step at which they occurred) become inputs to a higher-level network of the same kind (working on a slower, self-adjusting time scale).