DNC: Differential Neural Network
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Sherwin Chen
Originally published on Towards AI.
A detailed walk-through of DNC

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In the previous article, we discussed Neural Turing Machines(NTMs), which introduced an external memory to maintain information for later retrieval. In this post, we further discuss a more sophisticated method, namely Differential Neural Computer(DNC). The DNC builds on the same idea as the NTMs — both aim to combine the advantage of neural and computational processing by providing a neural network with read-write access to external memory. On the other hand, it improves NTMs with a more complicated and flexible interaction mechanism, which makes it potentially more powerful than NTMs.
Source: Graves et al. Hybrid Computing… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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