Title: Gradual Learning of Recurrent Neural Networks,
Abstract: Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) achieve state-of-the-art results in many
sequence-to-sequence modeling tasks. However, RNNs are difficult to train and
tend to suffer from overfitting. Motivated by the Data Processing Inequality
(DPI), we formulate the multi-layered network as a Markov chain, introducing a
training method that comprises training the network gradually and using
layer-wise gradient clipping. We found that applying our methods, combined with
previously introduced regularization and optimization methods, resulted in
improvements in state-of-the-art architectures operating in language modeling
tasks.