5 Secrets About LSTM and GRU Everyone Else Knows

Mechanics explained with powerful visuals and a funny story

Michel Kana, Ph.D
Towards Data Science
9 min readFeb 27, 2020

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We explain why Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) has been so effective and popular for processing sequence data for Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon.

Photo from Peggy Choucair on Pixabay

Secret 1 — LSTMs greatly improved speech recognition on over 4 billion…

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