Encoder-decoder models in sequence-to-sequence learning: A survey of RNN and LSTM approaches

Abstract

In today's information age, from natural language processing to audio signal processing, from time series analysis to machine translation, the application of sequence data involves various fields. Encoder-decoder models, as a powerful approach to sequence modeling, have attracted extensive attention and research. This review paper aims to explore encoder-decoder models, focusing on the principles and operational steps of recurrent neural networks (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), aiming to provide researchers and practitioners with a deep understanding of the fundamentals and applications of these models Condition. Through the analysis and summary of relevant literature, this study reveals the advantages of RNN and LSTM in sequence data processing; RNN structure is simple and effective, can process sequence input and output of any length, and can capture the time dependence in sequence data. But there is a problem of gradient disappearance, which makes it difficult to deal with long-term dependencies. To solve this problem, the LSTM model introduces different gating mechanisms, which effectively solve the gradient problem while better capturing long-term dependencies. Through the review of the principles and applications of the two, it provides a useful reference for further research and application.