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LSTM Networks

Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are a specialized type of recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture designed to model sequential data by addressing the vanishing gradient problem in traditional RNNs. They use memory cells with gates (input, forget, and output) to control information flow, enabling them to learn long-term dependencies in time series, text, speech, and other sequential patterns. LSTMs are widely used in natural language processing, time series forecasting, and speech recognition tasks.

Also known as: Long Short-Term Memory, LSTM, LSTM neural networks, LSTM models, LSTM RNN
🧊Why learn LSTM Networks?

Developers should learn LSTM networks when working with sequential data where long-range dependencies are critical, such as in machine translation, sentiment analysis, or stock price prediction. They are particularly useful in natural language processing applications like text generation and named entity recognition, where context over many time steps must be preserved. Compared to simpler RNNs, LSTMs offer better performance on tasks requiring memory of past information over extended sequences.

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Learning Resources

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Understanding LSTM Networks
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LSTM in TensorFlow Documentation
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LSTM Explained | Deep Learning Tutorial 36
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Sequence Models Course on Coursera
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Related Tools

Recurrent Neural NetworksDeep LearningNatural Language ProcessingTime Series AnalysisTensorflow

Alternatives to LSTM Networks

Gru NetworksTransformersSimple Rnns