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This paper introduces a gradient-following learning algorithm for continually running fully recurrent neural networks, enabling them to learn complex temporal tasks requiring indefinite information retention without a precisely defined training interval.

Abstract

The exact form of a gradient-following learning algorithm for completely recurrent networks running in continually sampled time is derived and used as the basis for practical algorithms for temporal supervised learning tasks. These algorithms have: (1) the advantage that they do not require a precisely defined training interval, operating while the network runs; and (2) the disadvantage that they require nonlocal communication in the network being trained and are computationally expensive. These algorithms are shown to allow networks having recurrent connections to learn complex tasks requiring the retention of information over time periods having either fixed or indefinite length.