Felix Gers Explained

Felix Gers is a professor of computer science at Berlin University of Applied Sciences Berlin.^[1] With Jürgen Schmidhuber and Fred Cummins, he introduced the forget gate to the long short-term memory recurrent neural network architecture.^[2] This modification of the original^[3] architecture has been shown to be crucial to the success of the LSTM at such tasks as speech and handwriting recognition.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Felix Gers - Professor at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin . May 13, 2017.
2. Felix A. Gers . Jürgen Schmidhuber . Fred Cummins . Learning to Forget: Continual Prediction with LSTM . . 12 . 10 . 2451–2471 . 2000 . 10.1162/089976600300015015 . 11032042. 10.1.1.55.5709 . 11598600 .
3. Hochreiter. Sepp. Schmidhuber. Jürgen. Long Short-Term Memory. Neural Computation. 9. 8. 1997. 1735–1780. 0899-7667. 10.1162/neco.1997.9.8.1735. 9377276. 1915014 .
4. Greff. Klaus. Srivastava. Rupesh K.. Koutnik. Jan. Steunebrink. Bas R.. Schmidhuber. Jurgen. LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 2016. 1–11. 2162-237X. 10.1109/TNNLS.2016.2582924. 1503.04069. 27411231. 28. 10. 3356463 .