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What is LSTM?

LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) is a type of recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture well-suited for processing sequential data. Unlike traditional RNNs, LSTMs are designed to handle the vanishing gradient problem, allowing them to learn long-range dependencies in sequences. They achieve this through a memory cell that can maintain information over extended periods, regulated by input, output, and forget gates. LSTMs are commonly used in natural language processing (e.g., machine translation, text generation), speech recognition, and time series analysis.

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What other technologies are related to LSTM?

LSTM Competitor Technologies

RNN

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are a broader class of networks that LSTM falls under. They are a competing approach for handling sequential data, though LSTMs address the vanishing gradient problem of basic RNNs.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 49% (1.9k) of relevant job posts

GRU

Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) are a simplified version of LSTMs, and serve as a competing approach for addressing the vanishing gradient problem in RNNs while often being faster to train. They are thus a competitor.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 63% (221) of relevant job posts

ARIMA

ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) models are a traditional time series forecasting method and a statistical alternative for sequence modeling tasks, so can be considered a competitor.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 23% (304) of relevant job posts

Transformer

Transformers are a competing architecture for sequence modeling, often outperforming LSTMs on many tasks, especially those with long-range dependencies.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 12% (480) of relevant job posts

SARIMA

SARIMA (Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) is an extension of ARIMA for seasonal time series data, thus a competitor to LSTM for these tasks.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 40% (94) of relevant job posts

BERT

BERT is a transformer-based model that can be used for sequence modeling tasks such as natural language processing. It can be seen as a competitor for tasks where LSTMs would traditionally be used.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 5% (513) of relevant job posts

Transformers

Transformers (with a capital T) usually refers to the specific architecture, competing with LSTMs for sequence modeling.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 3% (588) of relevant job posts

LSTM Complementary Technologies

Attention-based models

Attention mechanisms can be used with LSTMs to focus on relevant parts of the input sequence, making them complementary. They are also used in transformer models, that can be considered as a competitor.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 76% (86) of relevant job posts

distributed training

Distributed training is a technique used to accelerate the training of large models, including LSTMs. It's complementary to the model architecture itself.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 40% (86) of relevant job posts

TensorFlow

TensorFlow is a deep learning framework that can be used to implement and train LSTM models. It's a tool that supports the use of LSTM, not a competitor.

mentioned alongside LSTM in 1% (2k) of relevant job posts