You'll need to read the paper in advance. Ideally please also bring along your own copies of the paper to refer to in the session.
25th February 2026: Long short-term memory
When: Wednesday 25th February 2026, 6 pm – 8 pm.
Where: The Castle Inn, 36 Castle Street, Cambridge, UK. (Most
likely we'll be at one of the large tables upstairs.)
Paper: S. Hochreiter and J. Schmidhuber. Long Short-Term
Memory. In Neural Computation, 9, 1735–1780, 1997.
URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13853244_Long_Short-Term_Memory
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are a type of recurrent neural net capable of learning long-range
dependencies in sequential data. They were the state of the art in language modelling prior to transformers, and remain highly relevant to modern machine learning.