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Remedies

The above theoretical investigations indicate a basic limitation of gradient descent as a search procedure for finding optimal weights in a RNN. Several proposals have been made to cope with the problem of long-term dependencies, some attempting to solve the optimization problem using alternative search algorithms, other trying to devise alternative architectures. In the following we give a brief accounts of these proposals.

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Juergen Schmidhuber 2003-02-19