Full-Capacity Unitary Recurrent Neural Networks

Scott Wisdom, Thomas Powers, John Hershey, Jonathan Le Roux, Les Atlas

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Recurrent neural networks are powerful models for processing sequential data, but they are generally plagued by vanishing and exploding gradient problems. Unitary recurrent neural networks (uRNNs), which use unitary recurrence matrices, have recently been proposed as a means to avoid these issues.