Shortcut Sequence Tagging

Autor: Wu, Huijia, Zhang, Jiajun, Zong, Chengqing
Rok vydání: 2017
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Deep stacked RNNs are usually hard to train. Adding shortcut connections across different layers is a common way to ease the training of stacked networks. However, extra shortcuts make the recurrent step more complicated. To simply the stacked architecture, we propose a framework called shortcut block, which is a marriage of the gating mechanism and shortcuts, while discarding the self-connected part in LSTM cell. We present extensive empirical experiments showing that this design makes training easy and improves generalization. We propose various shortcut block topologies and compositions to explore its effectiveness. Based on this architecture, we obtain a 6% relatively improvement over the state-of-the-art on CCGbank supertagging dataset. We also get comparable results on POS tagging task.
Comment: 10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1610.03167
Databáze: arXiv