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    • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
    • Deep Learning Architectures

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    • Language models (LMs) are crucial for NLP tasks.
    • Multilayer Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models show promise in word-level language modeling.
    • Increasing LSTM hidden sizes improves feature diversity but faces diminishing returns.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To analyze the performance bottleneck in large-scale LSTM layers.
    • To propose an effective method to enhance LSTM layer feature expression.
    • To improve language model performance without parameter inflation.

    Main Methods:

    • Investigated the high correlation between extended and original hidden states in LSTMs.
    • Introduced Major-Minor LSTMs (MMLSTMs) by combining large-scale and small-scale LSTMs within each layer.
    • Evaluated MMLSTMs on benchmark datasets: Penn Treebank (PTB), WikiText-2 (WT2), and WikiText-103 (WT103).

    Main Results:

    • MMLSTMs effectively break the high correlation between hidden states.
    • The proposed model surpasses state-of-the-art performance on PTB and WT2 datasets.
    • Achieved a 3.3-point perplexity improvement on WT103 compared to the baseline.

    Conclusions:

    • MMLSTMs offer a parameter-efficient enhancement for LSTM layers.
    • This method addresses the feature expression limitations in large-scale LSTMs.
    • MMLSTMs represent a significant advancement in language modeling.