Recurrent Memory Networks

This code implements Recurrent Memory Networks (RM and RMR) described in

Recurrent Memory Networks for Language Modeling 
Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz 
In Proceedings of NAACL 2016

Much of this code is based on char-nn.

Getting data

The data is pushed using git-lfs. To get the data, you need to have git-lfs installed, then just do

$ git lfs pull

Use the code

Here is an example how to run the code.

$ th RM.lua -max_seq_length 80 -min_seq_length 10 -max_epochs 20 \
-data_dir data/it -print_every 200 -num_layers 1 -mem_size 15  \
-learning_rate 1 -emb_size 128 -rnn_size 128  -nhop 1 \
-checkpoint_dir checkpoint

There are many settings we didn't perform in our paper, for example increasing the embedding size, stacking multiple LSTM layers, etc. The reason is that we have a limitted time to spend on shared GPUs.

Data Processing

Since we are interested mostly in long distant dependencies, we only selected sentences whose length is in between 10 and 80 tokens (use this option -max_seq_length 80 -min_seq_length 10). If you want to compare to our results, ideally, you should use the same setting.

TODO:

• clean up the code (remove some experimental settings)
• fast output layer?