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Ask Me Anything: Dynamic Memory Networks for Natural Language Processing

ICML 2016 · Architectures and efficiency › Attention and transformers · approach: State space and recurrent sequence models · 628 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
add multiple episodic memory passes (5 vs 1) over inputs (ablation)DMN · bAbI task 3 (three supporting facts)test accuracy (%): 0 to 95.2Helped
add multiple episodic memory passes (5 vs 1) over inputs (ablation)DMN · bAbI task 7 (counting)test accuracy (%): 48.8 to 96.9Helped
increase episodic memory passes from 1 to 2 (ablation)DMN · SST fine-grainedtest accuracy (%): 51.5 to 52.1Helped
increase episodic memory passes from 2 to 3 (ablation)DMN · SST fine-grainedtest accuracy (%): 52.1 to 50.1Hurt
add episodic memory passes (0 to 2) over a no-memory baseline (ablation)DMN · bAbI task 8 (lists/sets)test accuracy (%): 33.6 to 55.6 at 2 passes; 96.5 at 5 passesHelped
use DMN with episodic memory instead of MemNNbAbI tasks 7 and 8 · bAbItest accuracy (%): +11.9 on task 7; +5.5 on task 8Helped
use DMN instead of MemNN on bAbI overallDMN · bAbI (20 tasks)mean test accuracy (%): 93.3 to 93.6Helped
use DMN instead of MemNN on bAbI tasks 2 and 3 (long inputs)DMN · bAbI tasks 2-3test accuracy (%): -1.8 on task 2; -4.8 on task 3Hurt
use softmax-based episode computation over gates instead of GRU-based episode (sentence selection)DMN · bAbIqualitativeHelped
use DMN with episodic memory instead of Kim CNN-MC on SST binaryDMN · SST binarytest accuracy (%): +0.5 over CNN-MC (88.1)Helped
use DMN on SST fine-grained vs CT-LSTMDMN · SST fine-grainedtest accuracy (%): +1.1 over CT-LSTM (51.0)Helped
use DMN on WSJ-PTB POS taggingDMN · WSJ-PTB POS taggingtest accuracy (%): +0.06 over SCNN (97.50)Helped

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