Recurrent Neural Networks for Beginners – Camron's Blog

What are Recurrent Neural Networks and how can you use them? In this post I discuss the basics of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) which are deep learning models that are becoming increasingly popular. I don't intend to get too heavily into the math and proofs behind why these work and am aiming for a more abstract understanding. Recurrent Neural Networks were created in the 1980's but have just been recently gaining popularity from advances to the networks designs and increased computational power from graphic processing units. They're especially useful with sequential data because each neuron or unit can use its internal memory to maintain information about the previous input.