awesome-awesomeness/terminal/rnn

                                                                                                          Awesome Recurrent Neural Networks

A curated list of resources dedicated to recurrent neural networks (closely related to deep learning).

Maintainers - Myungsub Choi (https://github.com/myungsub), Taeksoo Kim (https://github.com/jazzsaxmafia), Jiwon Kim (https://github.com/kjw0612)

We have pages for other topics: awesome-deep-vision (https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-deep-vision), awesome-random-forest (https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-random-forest)

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Table of Contents

- Codes (#codes)
- Theory (#theory)
  - Lectures (#lectures)
  - Books / Thesis (#books--thesis)
  - Architecture Variants (#architecture-variants)
- **Structure** (#structure)
- **Memory** (#memory)      
  - Surveys (#surveys)
- Applications (#applications)
  - Natural Language Processing (#natural-language-processing)
- **Language Modeling** (#language-modeling)        
- **Speech Recognition** (#speech-recognition)      
- **Machine Translation** (#machine-translation)    
- **Conversation Modeling** (#conversation-modeling)
- **Question Answering** (#question-answering)      
  - Computer Vision (#computer-vision)
- **Object Recognition** (#object-recognition)
- **Image Generation** (#image-generation)    
- **Video Analysis** (#video-analysis)        
  - Multimodal (CV+NLP) (#multimodal-cv--nlp)
- **Image Captioning** (#image-captioning)                  
- **Video Captioning** (#video-captioning)                  
- **Visual Question Answering** (#visual-question-answering)
  - Turing Machines (#turing-machines)
  - Robotics (#robotics)
  - Other (#other)
- Datasets (#datasets)
- Blogs (#blogs)
- Online Demos (#online-demos)

Codes
⟡ Tensorflow (https://www.tensorflow.org/) - Python, C++
  ⟡ Get started (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/get_started/index.html), Tutorials (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/tutorials/index.html)
* **Recurrent Neural Network Tutorial** (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/tutorials/recurrent/index.html)
* **Sequence-to-Sequence Model Tutorial** (https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/master/tutorials/seq2seq/index.html)
  ⟡ Tutorials (https://github.com/nlintz/TensorFlow-Tutorials) by nlintz
  ⟡ Notebook examples (https://github.com/aymericdamien/TensorFlow-Examples) by aymericdamien
  ⟡ Scikit Flow (skflow) (https://github.com/tensorflow/skflow) - Simplified Scikit-learn like Interface for TensorFlow
  ⟡ Keras (http://keras.io/) : (Tensorflow / Theano)-based modular deep learning library similar to Torch
  ⟡ char-rnn-tensorflow (https://github.com/sherjilozair/char-rnn-tensorflow) by sherjilozair: char-rnn in tensorflow
⟡ Theano (http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/) - Python
  ⟡ Simple IPython tutorial on Theano (http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/craffel/theano-tutorial/blob/master/Theano%20Tutorial.ipynb)
  ⟡ Deep Learning Tutorials (http://www.deeplearning.net/tutorial/)
* **RNN for semantic parsing of speech** (http://www.deeplearning.net/tutorial/rnnslu.html#rnnslu)
* **LSTM network for sentiment analysis** (http://www.deeplearning.net/tutorial/lstm.html#lstm)   
  ⟡ Pylearn2 (http://deeplearning.net/software/pylearn2/) : Library that wraps a lot of models and training algorithms in deep learning
  ⟡ Blocks (https://github.com/mila-udem/blocks) : modular framework that enables building neural network models
  ⟡ Keras (http://keras.io/) : (Tensorflow / Theano)-based modular deep learning library similar to Torch
  ⟡ Lasagne (https://github.com/Lasagne/Lasagne) : Lightweight library to build and train neural networks in Theano
  ⟡ theano-rnn (https://github.com/gwtaylor/theano-rnn) by Graham Taylor
  ⟡ Passage (https://github.com/IndicoDataSolutions/Passage) : Library for text analysis with RNNs
  ⟡ Theano-Lights (https://github.com/Ivaylo-Popov/Theano-Lights) : Contains many generative models
⟡ Caffe (https://github.com/BVLC/caffe) - C++ with MATLAB/Python wrappers
  ⟡ LRCN (http://jeffdonahue.com/lrcn/) by Jeff Donahue
⟡ Torch (http://torch.ch/) - Lua
  ⟡ torchnet (https://github.com/torchnet/torchnet) : modular framework that enables building neural network models
  ⟡ char-rnn (https://github.com/karpathy/char-rnn) by Andrej Karpathy : multi-layer RNN/LSTM/GRU for training/sampling from character-level language models
  ⟡ torch-rnn (https://github.com/jcjohnson/torch-rnn) by Justin Johnson : reusable RNN/LSTM modules for torch7 - much faster and memory efficient reimplementation of char-rnn
  ⟡ neuraltalk2 (https://github.com/karpathy/neuraltalk2) by Andrej Karpathy : Recurrent Neural Network captions image, much faster and better version of the original neuraltalk (https://github.com/karpathy/neuraltalk)
  ⟡ LSTM (https://github.com/wojzaremba/lstm) by Wojciech Zaremba : Long Short Term Memory Units to train a language model on word level Penn Tree Bank dataset
  ⟡ Oxford (https://github.com/oxford-cs-ml-2015) by Nando de Freitas : Oxford Computer Science - Machine Learning 2015 Practicals
  ⟡ rnn (https://github.com/Element-Research/rnn) by Nicholas Leonard : general library for implementing RNN, LSTM, BRNN and BLSTM (highly unit tested).
⟡ PyTorch (http://pytorch.org/) - Python
  ⟡ Word-level RNN example (https://github.com/pytorch/examples/tree/master/word_language_model) : demonstrates PyTorch's built in RNN modules for language modeling
  ⟡ Practical PyTorch tutorials (https://github.com/spro/practical-pytorch) by Sean Robertson : focuses on using RNNs for Natural Language Processing
  ⟡ Deep Learning For NLP In PyTorch (https://github.com/rguthrie3/DeepLearningForNLPInPytorch) by Robert Guthrie : written for a Natural Language Processing class at Georgia Tech
⟡ DL4J (http://deeplearning4j.org/) by Skymind (http://www.skymind.io/) : Deep Learning library for Java, Scala & Clojure on Hadoop, Spark & GPUs
  ⟡ Documentation (http://deeplearning4j.org/) (Also in Chinese (http://deeplearning4j.org/zh-index.html), Japanese (http://deeplearning4j.org/ja-index.html), Korean (http://deeplearning4j.org/kr-index.html)) : RNN 
(http://deeplearning4j.org/usingrnns.html), LSTM (http://deeplearning4j.org/lstm.html)
  ⟡ rnn examples (https://github.com/deeplearning4j/dl4j-examples/tree/master/dl4j-examples/src/main/java/org/deeplearning4j/examples/recurrent)
⟡ Etc.
  ⟡ Neon (http://neon.nervanasys.com/docs/latest/index.html): new deep learning library in Python, with support for RNN/LSTM, and a fast image captioning model
  ⟡ Brainstorm (https://github.com/IDSIA/brainstorm): deep learning library in Python, developed by IDSIA, thereby including various recurrent structures
  ⟡ Chainer (http://chainer.org/) : new, flexible deep learning library in Python
  ⟡ CGT (http://joschu.github.io/)(Computational Graph Toolkit) : replicates Theano's API, but with very short compilation time and multithreading
  ⟡ RNNLIB (https://sourceforge.net/p/rnnl/wiki/Home/) by Alex Graves : C++ based LSTM library
  ⟡ RNNLM (http://rnnlm.org/) by Tomas Mikolov : C++ based simple code
  ⟡ faster-RNNLM (https://github.com/yandex/faster-rnnlm) of Yandex : C++ based rnnlm implementation aimed to handle huge datasets
  ⟡ neuraltalk (https://github.com/karpathy/neuraltalk) by Andrej Karpathy : numpy-based RNN/LSTM implementation
  ⟡ gist (https://gist.github.com/karpathy/587454dc0146a6ae21fc) by Andrej Karpathy : raw numpy code that implements an efficient batched LSTM
  ⟡ Recurrentjs (https://github.com/karpathy/recurrentjs) by Andrej Karpathy : a beta javascript library for RNN
  ⟡ DARQN (https://github.com/5vision/DARQN) by 5vision : Deep Attention Recurrent Q-Network

Theory
Lectures
⟡ Stanford NLP (CS224d (http://cs224d.stanford.edu/index.html)) by Richard Socher
  ⟡ Lecture Note 3 (http://cs224d.stanford.edu/lecture_notes/LectureNotes3.pdf) : neural network basics
  ⟡ Lecture Note 4 (http://cs224d.stanford.edu/lecture_notes/LectureNotes4.pdf) : RNN language models, bi-directional RNN, GRU, LSTM
⟡ Stanford vision (CS231n (http://cs231n.github.io/)) by Andrej Karpathy
  ⟡ About NN basic, and CNN
⟡ Oxford Machine Learning (https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/machinelearning/) by Nando de Freitas
  ⟡ Lecture 12 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56TYLaQN4N8) : Recurrent neural networks and LSTMs
  ⟡ Lecture 13 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yX1SYeDHbg) : (guest lecture) Alex Graves on Hallucination with RNNs

Books / Thesis
⟡ Alex Graves (2008)
  ⟡ Supervised Sequence Labelling with Recurrent Neural Networks (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/preprint.pdf)
⟡ Tomas Mikolov (2012)
  ⟡ Statistical Language Models based on Neural Networks (http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~imikolov/rnnlm/thesis.pdf)
⟡ Ilya Sutskever (2013)
  ⟡ Training Recurrent Neural Networks (http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/ilya_sutskever_phd_thesis.pdf)
⟡ Richard Socher (2014)
  ⟡ Recursive Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision (http://nlp.stanford.edu/~socherr/thesis.pdf)
⟡ Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville (2016)
  ⟡ The Deep Learning Book chapter 10 (http://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/rnn.html)


Architecture Variants

Structure

⟡ Bi-directional RNN Paper (http://www.di.ufpe.br/~fnj/RNA/bibliografia/BRNN.pdf) 
  ⟡ Mike Schuster and Kuldip K. Paliwal, Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks, Trans. on Signal Processing 1997
⟡ Multi-dimensional RNN Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0705.2011.pdf) 
  ⟡ Alex Graves, Santiago Fernandez, and Jurgen Schmidhuber, Multi-Dimensional Recurrent Neural Networks, ICANN 2007
⟡ GFRNN Paper-arXiv (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.02367)  Paper-ICML (http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v37/chung15.pdf)  Supplementary (http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v37/chung15-supp.pdf) 
  ⟡ Junyoung Chung, Caglar Gulcehre, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio, Gated Feedback Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1502.02367 / ICML 2015
⟡ Tree-Structured RNNs
  ⟡ Kai Sheng Tai, Richard Socher, and Christopher D. Manning, Improved Semantic Representations From Tree-Structured Long Short-Term Memory Networks, arXiv:1503.00075 / ACL 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.00075) 
  ⟡ Samuel R. Bowman, Christopher D. Manning, and Christopher Potts, Tree-structured composition in neural networks without tree-structured architectures, arXiv:1506.04834 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.04834) 
⟡ Grid LSTM Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01526)  Code (https://github.com/coreylynch/grid-lstm) 
  ⟡ Nal Kalchbrenner, Ivo Danihelka, and Alex Graves, Grid Long Short-Term Memory, arXiv:1507.01526
⟡ Segmental RNN Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06018v2.pdf) 
  ⟡ Lingpeng Kong, Chris Dyer, Noah Smith, "Segmental Recurrent Neural Networks", ICLR 2016.
⟡ Seq2seq for Sets Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06391v4.pdf) 
  ⟡ Oriol Vinyals, Samy Bengio, Manjunath Kudlur, "Order Matters: Sequence to sequence for sets", ICLR 2016.
⟡ Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01704) 
  ⟡ Junyoung Chung, Sungjin Ahn, Yoshua Bengio, "Hierarchical Multiscale Recurrent Neural Networks", arXiv:1609.01704

Memory

⟡ LSTM Paper (http://deeplearning.cs.cmu.edu/pdfs/Hochreiter97_lstm.pdf) 
  ⟡ Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber, Long Short-Term Memory, Neural Computation 1997
⟡ GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.1078.pdf) 
  ⟡ Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Berrienboer, Caglar Gulcehre, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Fethi Bougares, Holger Schwenk, and Yoshua Bengio, Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation, arXiv:1406.1078 / EMNLP 
2014
⟡ NTM Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401) 
  ⟡ A.Graves, G. Wayne, and I. Danihelka., Neural Turing Machines, arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5401
⟡ Neural GPU Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.08228.pdf) 
  ⟡ Łukasz Kaiser, Ilya Sutskever, arXiv:1511.08228 / ICML 2016 (under review)
⟡ Memory Network Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.3916) 
  ⟡ Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra, Antoine Bordes, Memory Networks, arXiv:1410.3916
⟡ Pointer Network Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03134) 
  ⟡ Oriol Vinyals, Meire Fortunato, and Navdeep Jaitly, Pointer Networks, arXiv:1506.03134 / NIPS 2015
⟡ Deep Attention Recurrent Q-Network Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01693) 
  ⟡ Ivan Sorokin, Alexey Seleznev, Mikhail Pavlov, Aleksandr Fedorov, Anastasiia Ignateva, Deep Attention Recurrent Q-Network , arXiv:1512.01693
⟡ Dynamic Memory Networks Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.07285) 
  ⟡ Ankit Kumar, Ozan Irsoy, Peter Ondruska, Mohit Iyyer, James Bradbury, Ishaan Gulrajani, Victor Zhong, Romain Paulus, Richard Socher, "Ask Me Anything: Dynamic Memory Networks for Natural Language Processing", arXiv:1506.07285

Surveys
⟡ Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Geoffrey Hinton, Deep Learning (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v521/n7553/pdf/nature14539.pdf), Nature 2015
⟡ Klaus Greff, Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, Jan Koutnik, Bas R. Steunebrink, Jurgen Schmidhuber, LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.04069), arXiv:1503.04069
⟡ Zachary C. Lipton, A Critical Review of Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Learning (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.00019), arXiv:1506.00019
⟡ Andrej Karpathy, Justin Johnson, Li Fei-Fei, Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02078), arXiv:1506.02078
⟡ Rafal Jozefowicz, Wojciech Zaremba, Ilya Sutskever, An Empirical Exploration of Recurrent Network Architectures (http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v37/jozefowicz15.pdf), ICML, 2015.

Applications

Natural Language Processing

Language Modeling
⟡ Tomas Mikolov, Martin Karafiat, Lukas Burget, Jan "Honza" Cernocky, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Recurrent Neural Network based Language Model, Interspeech 2010 Paper 
(http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/speech/publi/2010/mikolov_interspeech2010_IS100722.pdf) 
⟡ Tomas Mikolov, Stefan Kombrink, Lukas Burget, Jan "Honza" Cernocky, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Extensions of Recurrent Neural Network Language Model, ICASSP 2011 Paper 
(http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/speech/publi/2011/mikolov_icassp2011_5528.pdf) 
⟡ Stefan Kombrink, Tomas Mikolov, Martin Karafiat, Lukas Burget, Recurrent Neural Network based Language Modeling in Meeting Recognition, Interspeech 2011 Paper 
(http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~imikolov/rnnlm/ApplicationOfRNNinMeetingRecognition_IS2011.pdf) 
⟡ Jiwei Li, Minh-Thang Luong, and Dan Jurafsky, A Hierarchical Neural Autoencoder for Paragraphs and Documents, ACL 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.01057) , Code (https://github.com/jiweil/Hierarchical-Neural-Autoencoder) 
⟡ Ryan Kiros, Yukun Zhu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Richard S. Zemel, Skip-Thought Vectors, arXiv:1506.06726 / NIPS 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06726.pdf) 
⟡ Yoon Kim, Yacine Jernite, David Sontag, and Alexander M. Rush, Character-Aware Neural Language Models, arXiv:1508.06615 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06615) 
⟡ Xingxing Zhang, Liang Lu, and Mirella Lapata, Tree Recurrent Neural Networks with Application to Language Modeling, arXiv:1511.00060 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.00060.pdf) 
⟡ Felix Hill, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, and Jason Weston, The Goldilocks Principle: Reading children's books with explicit memory representations, arXiv:1511.0230 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.02301.pdf) 


Speech Recognition
⟡ Geoffrey Hinton, Li Deng, Dong Yu, George E. Dahl, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, Navdeep Jaitly, Andrew Senior, Vincent Vanhoucke, Patrick Nguyen, Tara N. Sainath, and Brian Kingsbury, Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition, 
IEEE Signam Processing Magazine 2012 Paper (http://cs224d.stanford.edu/papers/maas_paper.pdf) 
⟡ Alex Graves, Abdel-rahman Mohamed, and Geoffrey Hinton, Speech Recognition with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1303.5778 / ICASSP 2013 Paper (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/RNN13.pdf) 
⟡ Jan Chorowski, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio, Attention-Based Models for Speech Recognition, arXiv:1506.07503 / NIPS 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.07503) 
⟡ Haşim Sak, Andrew Senior, Kanishka Rao, and Françoise Beaufays. Fast and Accurate Recurrent Neural Network Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition, arXiv:1507.06947 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06947v1.pdf) .

Machine Translation
⟡ Oxford Paper (http://www.nal.ai/papers/kalchbrennerblunsom_emnlp13) 
  ⟡ Nal Kalchbrenner and Phil Blunsom, Recurrent Continuous Translation Models, EMNLP 2013
⟡ Univ. Montreal
  ⟡ Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Berrienboer, Caglar Gulcehre, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Fethi Bougares, Holger Schwenk, and Yoshua Bengio, Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation, arXiv:1406.1078 / EMNLP 
2014 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.1078) 
  ⟡ Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Merrienboer, Dzmitry Bahdanau, and Yoshua Bengio, On the Properties of Neural Machine Translation: Encoder-Decoder Approaches, SSST-8 2014 Paper (http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W14-4012) 
  ⟡ Jean Pouget-Abadie, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Bart van Merrienboer, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio, Overcoming the Curse of Sentence Length for Neural Machine Translation using Automatic Segmentation, SSST-8 2014
  ⟡ Dzmitry Bahdanau, KyungHyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio, Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate, arXiv:1409.0473 / ICLR 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0473) 
  ⟡ Sebastian Jean, Kyunghyun Cho, Roland Memisevic, and Yoshua Bengio, On using very large target vocabulary for neural machine translation, arXiv:1412.2007 / ACL 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.2007.pdf) 
⟡ Univ. Montreal + Middle East Tech. Univ. + Univ. Maine Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.03535.pdf) 
  ⟡ Caglar Gulcehre, Orhan Firat, Kelvin Xu, Kyunghyun Cho, Loic Barrault, Huei-Chi Lin, Fethi Bougares, Holger Schwenk, and Yoshua Bengio, On Using Monolingual Corpora in Neural Machine Translation, arXiv:1503.03535
⟡ Google Paper (http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5346-sequence-to-sequence-learning-with-neural-networks.pdf) 
  ⟡ Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc V. Le, Sequence to Sequence Learning with Neural Networks, arXiv:1409.3215 / NIPS 2014
⟡ Google + NYU Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.8206) 
  ⟡ Minh-Thang Luong, Ilya Sutskever, Quoc V. Le, Oriol Vinyals, and Wojciech Zaremba, Addressing the Rare Word Problem in Neural Machine Transltaion, arXiv:1410.8206 / ACL 2015
⟡ ICT + Huawei Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06442.pdf) 
  ⟡ Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Zhaopeng Tu, Hang Li, and Qun Liu, A Deep Memory-based Architecture for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning, arXiv:1506.06442
⟡ Stanford Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04025.pdf) 
  ⟡ Minh-Thang Luong, Hieu Pham, and Christopher D. Manning, Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation, arXiv:1508.04025
⟡ Middle East Tech. Univ. + NYU + Univ. Montreal Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.01073.pdf) 
  ⟡ Orhan Firat, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yoshua Bengio, Multi-Way, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with a Shared Attention Mechanism, arXiv:1601.01073

Conversation Modeling
⟡ Lifeng Shang, Zhengdong Lu, and Hang Li, Neural Responding Machine for Short-Text Conversation, arXiv:1503.02364 / ACL 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.02364) 
⟡ Oriol Vinyals and Quoc V. Le, A Neural Conversational Model, arXiv:1506.05869 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869) 
⟡ Ryan Lowe, Nissan Pow, Iulian V. Serban, and Joelle Pineau, The Ubuntu Dialogue Corpus: A Large Dataset for Research in Unstructured Multi-Turn Dialogue Systems, arXiv:1506.08909 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.08909) 
⟡ Jesse Dodge, Andreea Gane, Xiang Zhang, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Alexander Miller, Arthur Szlam, and Jason Weston, Evaluating Prerequisite Qualities for Learning End-to-End Dialog Systems, arXiv:1511.06931 Paper 
(http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06931) 
⟡ Jason Weston, Dialog-based Language Learning, arXiv:1604.06045, Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.06045) 
⟡ Antoine Bordes and Jason Weston, Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog, arXiv:1605.07683 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.07683) 

Question Answering
⟡ FAIR
  ⟡ Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Tomas Mikolov, and Alexander M. Rush, Towards AI-Complete Question Answering: A Set of Prerequisite Toy Tasks, arXiv:1502.05698 Web (https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1543934539189348)  
Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05698.pdf) 
  ⟡ Antoine Bordes, Nicolas Usunier, Sumit Chopra, and Jason Weston, Simple Question answering with Memory Networks, arXiv:1506.02075 Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02075) 
  ⟡ Felix Hill, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Jason Weston, "The Goldilocks Principle: Reading Children's Books with Explicit Memory Representations", ICLR 2016 Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02301) 
⟡ DeepMind + Oxford Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03340.pdf) 
  ⟡ Karl M. Hermann, Tomas Kocisky, Edward Grefenstette, Lasse Espeholt, Will Kay, Mustafa Suleyman, and Phil Blunsom, Teaching Machines to Read and Comprehend, arXiv:1506.03340 / NIPS 2015
⟡ MetaMind Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.07285.pdf) 
  ⟡ Ankit Kumar, Ozan Irsoy, Jonathan Su, James Bradbury, Robert English, Brian Pierce, Peter Ondruska, Mohit Iyyer, Ishaan Gulrajani, and Richard Socher, Ask Me Anything: Dynamic Memory Networks for Natural Language Processing, arXiv:1506.07285

Computer Vision

Object Recognition
⟡ Pedro Pinheiro and Ronan Collobert, Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Scene Labeling, ICML 2014 Paper (http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v32/pinheiro14.pdf) 
⟡ Ming Liang and Xiaolin Hu, Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Object Recognition, CVPR 2015 Paper (http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Liang_Recurrent_Convolutional_Neural_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf) 
⟡ Wonmin Byeon, Thomas Breuel, Federico Raue1, and Marcus Liwicki1, Scene Labeling with LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks, CVPR 2015 Paper 
(http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2015/papers/Byeon_Scene_Labeling_With_2015_CVPR_paper.pdf) 
⟡ Mircea Serban Pavel, Hannes Schulz, and Sven Behnke, Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Object-Class Segmentation of RGB-D Video, IJCNN 2015 Paper (http://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/papers/IJCNN_2015_Pavel.pdf) 
⟡ Shuai Zheng, Sadeep Jayasumana, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Vibhav Vineet, Zhizhong Su, Dalong Du, Chang Huang, and Philip H. S. Torr, Conditional Random Fields as Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1502.03240 Paper 
(http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03240) 
⟡ Xiaodan Liang, Xiaohui Shen, Donglai Xiang, Jiashi Feng, Liang Lin, and Shuicheng Yan, Semantic Object Parsing with Local-Global Long Short-Term Memory, arXiv:1511.04510 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.04510.pdf) 
⟡ Sean Bell, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Kavita Bala, and Ross Girshick, Inside-Outside Net: Detecting Objects in Context with Skip Pooling and Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1512.04143 / ICCV 2015 workshop Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.04143) 

Visual Tracking
⟡ Quan Gan, Qipeng Guo, Zheng Zhang, and Kyunghyun Cho, First Step toward Model-Free, Anonymous Object Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1511.06425 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06425) 


Image Generation
⟡ Karol Gregor, Ivo Danihelka, Alex Graves, Danilo J. Rezende, and Daan Wierstra, DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network for Image Generation, ICML 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.04623) 
⟡ Angeliki Lazaridou, Dat T. Nguyen, R. Bernardi, and M. Baroni, Unveiling the Dreams of Word Embeddings: Towards Language-Driven Image Generation, arXiv:1506.03500 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03500) 
⟡ Lucas Theis and Matthias Bethge, Generative Image Modeling Using Spatial LSTMs, arXiv:1506.03478 / NIPS 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03478) 
⟡ Aaron van den Oord, Nal Kalchbrenner, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, Pixel Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1601.06759 Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06759) 

Video Analysis

⟡ Univ. Toronto paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04681) 
  ⟡ Nitish Srivastava, Elman Mansimov, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Unsupervised Learning of Video Representations using LSTMs, arXiv:1502.04681 / ICML 2015
⟡ Univ. Cambridge paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06309) 
  ⟡ Viorica Patraucean, Ankur Handa, Roberto Cipolla, Spatio-temporal video autoencoder with differentiable memory, arXiv:1511.06309



Multimodal (CV + NLP)

Image Captioning
⟡ UCLA + Baidu Web (http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~junhua.mao/m-RNN.html)  Paper-arXiv1 (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.1090) , Paper-arXiv2 (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.6632) 
  ⟡ Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, and Alan L. Yuille, Explain Images with Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1410.1090
  ⟡ Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, Zhiheng Huang, and Alan L. Yuille, Deep Captioning with Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks (m-RNN), arXiv:1412.6632 / ICLR 2015
⟡ Univ. Toronto Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.2539)  Web demo (http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/i2t) 
  ⟡ Ryan Kiros, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Richard S. Zemel, Unifying Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Multimodal Neural Language Models, arXiv:1411.2539 / TACL 2015
⟡ Berkeley Web (http://jeffdonahue.com/lrcn/)  Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4389) 
  ⟡ Jeff Donahue, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sergio Guadarrama, Marcus Rohrbach, Subhashini Venugopalan, Kate Saenko, and Trevor Darrell, Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description, arXiv:1411.4389 / CVPR 2015
⟡ Google Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4555) 
  ⟡ Oriol Vinyals, Alexander Toshev, Samy Bengio, and Dumitru Erhan, Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator, arXiv:1411.4555 / CVPR 2015
⟡ Stanford Web  (http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/deepimagesent/) Paper  (http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/cvpr2015.pdf)
  ⟡ Andrej Karpathy and Li Fei-Fei, Deep Visual-Semantic Alignments for Generating Image Description, CVPR 2015
⟡ Microsoft Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4952) 
  ⟡ Hao Fang, Saurabh Gupta, Forrest Iandola, Rupesh Srivastava, Li Deng, Piotr Dollar, Jianfeng Gao, Xiaodong He, Margaret Mitchell, John C. Platt, Lawrence Zitnick, and Geoffrey Zweig, From Captions to Visual Concepts and Back, arXiv:1411.4952 
/ CVPR 2015
⟡ CMU + Microsoft Paper-arXiv (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.5654) , Paper-CVPR (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~xinleic/papers/cvpr15_rnn.pdf) 
  ⟡ Xinlei Chen, and C. Lawrence Zitnick, Learning a Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation
  ⟡ Xinlei Chen, and C. Lawrence Zitnick, Mind’s Eye: A Recurrent Visual Representation for Image Caption Generation, CVPR 2015
⟡ Univ. Montreal + Univ. Toronto Web (http://kelvinxu.github.io/projects/capgen.html)  Paper (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zemel/documents/captionAttn.pdf) 
  ⟡ Kelvin Xu, Jimmy Lei Ba, Ryan Kiros, Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Richard S. Zemel, and Yoshua Bengio, Show, Attend, and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention, arXiv:1502.03044 / ICML 2015
⟡ Idiap + EPFL + Facebook Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.03671) 
  ⟡ Remi Lebret, Pedro O. Pinheiro, and Ronan Collobert, Phrase-based Image Captioning, arXiv:1502.03671 / ICML 2015
⟡ UCLA + Baidu Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.06692) 
  ⟡ Junhua Mao, Wei Xu, Yi Yang, Jiang Wang, Zhiheng Huang, and Alan L. Yuille, Learning like a Child: Fast Novel Visual Concept Learning from Sentence Descriptions of Images, arXiv:1504.06692
⟡ MS + Berkeley
  ⟡ Jacob Devlin, Saurabh Gupta, Ross Girshick, Margaret Mitchell, and C. Lawrence Zitnick, Exploring Nearest Neighbor Approaches for Image Captioning, arXiv:1505.04467 (Note: technically not RNN) Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.04467.pdf) 
  ⟡ Jacob Devlin, Hao Cheng, Hao Fang, Saurabh Gupta, Li Deng, Xiaodong He, Geoffrey Zweig, and Margaret Mitchell, Language Models for Image Captioning: The Quirks and What Works, arXiv:1505.01809 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.01809.pdf) 
⟡ Adelaide Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.01144.pdf) 
  ⟡ Qi Wu, Chunhua Shen, Anton van den Hengel, Lingqiao Liu, and Anthony Dick, Image Captioning with an Intermediate Attributes Layer, arXiv:1506.01144
⟡ Tilburg Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03694.pdf) 
  ⟡ Grzegorz Chrupala, Akos Kadar, and Afra Alishahi, Learning language through pictures, arXiv:1506.03694
⟡ Univ. Montreal Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01053.pdf) 
  ⟡ Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, and Yoshua Bengio, Describing Multimedia Content using Attention-based Encoder-Decoder Networks, arXiv:1507.01053
⟡ Cornell Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.02091.pdf) 
  ⟡ Jack Hessel, Nicolas Savva, and Michael J. Wilber, Image Representations and New Domains in Neural Image Captioning, arXiv:1508.02091


Video Captioning
⟡ Berkeley Web (http://jeffdonahue.com/lrcn/)  Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.4389) 
  ⟡ Jeff Donahue, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sergio Guadarrama, Marcus Rohrbach, Subhashini Venugopalan, Kate Saenko, and Trevor Darrell, Long-term Recurrent Convolutional Networks for Visual Recognition and Description, arXiv:1411.4389 / CVPR 2015
⟡ UT Austin + UML + Berkeley Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.4729) 
  ⟡ Subhashini Venugopalan, Huijuan Xu, Jeff Donahue, Marcus Rohrbach, Raymond Mooney, and Kate Saenko, Translating Videos to Natural Language Using Deep Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1412.4729
⟡ Microsoft Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.01861) 
  ⟡ Yingwei Pan, Tao Mei, Ting Yao, Houqiang Li, and Yong Rui, Joint Modeling Embedding and Translation to Bridge Video and Language, arXiv:1505.01861
⟡ UT Austin + Berkeley + UML Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00487) 
  ⟡ Subhashini Venugopalan, Marcus Rohrbach, Jeff Donahue, Raymond Mooney, Trevor Darrell, and Kate Saenko, Sequence to Sequence--Video to Text, arXiv:1505.00487
⟡ Univ. Montreal + Univ. Sherbrooke Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.08029.pdf) 
  ⟡ Li Yao, Atousa Torabi, Kyunghyun Cho, Nicolas Ballas, Christopher Pal, Hugo Larochelle, and Aaron Courville, Describing Videos by Exploiting Temporal Structure, arXiv:1502.08029
⟡ MPI + Berkeley Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.01698.pdf) 
  ⟡ Anna Rohrbach, Marcus Rohrbach, and Bernt Schiele, The Long-Short Story of Movie Description, arXiv:1506.01698
⟡ Univ. Toronto + MIT Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06724.pdf) 
  ⟡ Yukun Zhu, Ryan Kiros, Richard Zemel, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Raquel Urtasun, Antonio Torralba, and Sanja Fidler, Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books, arXiv:1506.06724
⟡ Univ. Montreal Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01053.pdf) 
  ⟡ Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, and Yoshua Bengio, Describing Multimedia Content using Attention-based Encoder-Decoder Networks, arXiv:1507.01053
⟡ Zhejiang Univ. + UTS Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03476) 
  ⟡ Pingbo Pan, Zhongwen Xu, Yi Yang, Fei Wu, Yueting Zhuang, Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Encoder for Video Representation with Application to Captioning, arXiv:1511.03476
⟡ Univ. Montreal + NYU + IBM Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.04590.pdf) 
  ⟡ Li Yao, Nicolas Ballas, Kyunghyun Cho, John R. Smith, and Yoshua Bengio, Empirical performance upper bounds for image and video captioning, arXiv:1511.04590


Visual Question Answering

⟡ Virginia Tech. + MSR Web (http://www.visualqa.org/)  Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00468) 
  ⟡ Stanislaw Antol, Aishwarya Agrawal, Jiasen Lu, Margaret Mitchell, Dhruv Batra, C. Lawrence Zitnick, and Devi Parikh, VQA: Visual Question Answering, arXiv:1505.00468 / CVPR 2015 SUNw:Scene Understanding workshop
⟡ MPI + Berkeley Web (https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/computer-vision-and-multimodal-computing/research/vision-and-language/visual-turing-challenge/)  Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.01121) 
  ⟡ Mateusz Malinowski, Marcus Rohrbach, and Mario Fritz, Ask Your Neurons: A Neural-based Approach to Answering Questions about Images, arXiv:1505.01121
⟡ Univ. Toronto Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.02074)  Dataset (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mren/imageqa/data/cocoqa/) 
  ⟡ Mengye Ren, Ryan Kiros, and Richard Zemel, Exploring Models and Data for Image Question Answering, arXiv:1505.02074 / ICML 2015 deep learning workshop
⟡ Baidu + UCLA Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.05612)  Dataset () 
  ⟡ Hauyuan Gao, Junhua Mao, Jie Zhou, Zhiheng Huang, Lei Wang, and Wei Xu, Are You Talking to a Machine? Dataset and Methods for Multilingual Image Question Answering, arXiv:1505.05612 / NIPS 2015
⟡ SNU + NAVER Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01455) 
  ⟡ Jin-Hwa Kim, Sang-Woo Lee, Dong-Hyun Kwak, Min-Oh Heo, Jeonghee Kim, Jung-Woo Ha, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Multimodal Residual Learning for Visual QA, arXiv:1606:01455
⟡ UC Berkeley + Sony Paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.01847) 
  ⟡ Akira Fukui, Dong Huk Park, Daylen Yang, Anna Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell, and Marcus Rohrbach, Multimodal Compact Bilinear Pooling for Visual Question Answering and Visual Grounding, arXiv:1606.01847
⟡ Postech Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03647.pdf) 
  ⟡ Hyeonwoo Noh and Bohyung Han, Training Recurrent Answering Units with Joint Loss Minimization for VQA, arXiv:1606.03647
⟡ SNU + NAVER Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04325) 
  ⟡ Jin-Hwa Kim, Kyoung Woon On, Jeonghee Kim, Jung-Woo Ha, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Hadamard Product for Low-rank Bilinear Pooling, arXiv:1610.04325
⟡ Video QA
  ⟡ CMU + UTS paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04670) 
* Linchao Zhu, Zhongwen Xu, Yi Yang, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Uncovering Temporal Context for Video Question and Answering, arXiv:1511.04670
  ⟡ KIT + MIT + Univ. Toronto Paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02902)  Dataset (http://movieqa.cs.toronto.edu/home/) 
* Makarand Tapaswi, Yukun Zhu, Rainer Stiefelhagen, Antonio Torralba, Raquel Urtasun, Sanja Fidler, MovieQA: Understanding Stories in Movies through Question-Answering, arXiv:1512.02902


Turing Machines
⟡  A.Graves, G. Wayne, and I. Danihelka., Neural Turing Machines, arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5401 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401) 
⟡ Jason Weston, Sumit Chopra, Antoine Bordes, Memory Networks, arXiv:1410.3916 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.3916) 
⟡ Armand Joulin and Tomas Mikolov, Inferring Algorithmic Patterns with Stack-Augmented Recurrent Nets, arXiv:1503.01007 / NIPS 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.01007) 
⟡ Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, and Rob Fergus, End-To-End Memory Networks, arXiv:1503.08895 / NIPS 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.08895) 
⟡ Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever, Reinforcement Learning Neural Turing Machines, arXiv:1505.00521 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.00521) 
⟡ Baolin Peng and Kaisheng Yao, Recurrent Neural Networks with External Memory for Language Understanding, arXiv:1506.00195 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.00195.pdf) 
⟡ Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Zhaopeng Tu, Hang Li, and Qun Liu, A Deep Memory-based Architecture for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning, arXiv:1506.06442 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.06442.pdf) 
⟡ Arvind Neelakantan, Quoc V. Le, and Ilya Sutskever, Neural Programmer: Inducing Latent Programs with Gradient Descent, arXiv:1511.04834 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.04834.pdf) 
⟡ Scott Reed and Nando de Freitas, Neural Programmer-Interpreters, arXiv:1511.06279 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06279.pdf) 
⟡ Karol Kurach, Marcin Andrychowicz, and Ilya Sutskever, Neural Random-Access Machines, arXiv:1511.06392 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06392.pdf) 
⟡ Łukasz Kaiser and Ilya Sutskever, Neural GPUs Learn Algorithms, arXiv:1511.08228 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.08228.pdf) 
⟡ Ethan Caballero, Skip-Thought Memory Networks, arXiv:1511.6420 Paper (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6b9f/0d695df0ce01d005eb5aa69386cb5fbac62a.pdf) 
⟡ Wojciech Zaremba, Tomas Mikolov, Armand Joulin, and Rob Fergus, Learning Simple Algorithms from Examples, arXiv:1511.07275 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07275.pdf) 

Robotics

⟡ Hongyuan Mei, Mohit Bansal, and Matthew R. Walter, Listen, Attend, and Walk: Neural Mapping of Navigational Instructions to Action Sequences, arXiv:1506.04089 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.04089.pdf) 
⟡ Marvin Zhang, Sergey Levine, Zoe McCarthy, Chelsea Finn, and Pieter Abbeel, Policy Learning with Continuous Memory States for Partially Observed Robotic Control, arXiv:1507.01273. Paper  (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01273)

Other
⟡ Alex Graves, Generating Sequences With Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1308.0850 Paper  (http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0850)
⟡ Volodymyr Mnih, Nicolas Heess, Alex Graves, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, Recurrent Models of Visual Attention, NIPS 2014 / arXiv:1406.6247 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.6247.pdf) 
⟡ Wojciech Zaremba and Ilya Sutskever, Learning to Execute, arXiv:1410.4615 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.4615.pdf)  Code (https://github.com/wojciechz/learning_to_execute) 
⟡ Samy Bengio, Oriol Vinyals, Navdeep Jaitly, and Noam Shazeer, Scheduled Sampling for Sequence Prediction with
Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1506.03099 / NIPS 2015 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.03099) 
⟡ Bing Shuai, Zhen Zuo, Gang Wang, and Bing Wang, DAG-Recurrent Neural Networks For Scene Labeling, arXiv:1509.00552 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.00552) 
⟡ Soren Kaae Sonderby, Casper Kaae Sonderby, Lars Maaloe, and Ole Winther, Recurrent Spatial Transformer Networks, arXiv:1509.05329 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.05329) 
⟡ Cesar Laurent, Gabriel Pereyra, Philemon Brakel, Ying Zhang, and Yoshua Bengio, Batch Normalized Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1510.01378 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.01378) 
⟡ Jiwon Kim, Jung Kwon Lee, Kyoung Mu Lee, Deeply-Recursive Convolutional Network for Image Super-Resolution, arXiv:1511.04491 Paper  (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.04491)
⟡ Quan Gan, Qipeng Guo, Zheng Zhang, and Kyunghyun Cho, First Step toward Model-Free, Anonymous Object Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks, arXiv:1511.06425 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06425.pdf) 
⟡ Francesco Visin, Kyle Kastner, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio, Matteo Matteucci, and Kyunghyun Cho, ReSeg: A Recurrent Neural Network for Object Segmentation, arXiv:1511.07053 Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.07053.pdf) 
⟡ Juergen Schmidhuber, On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of Reinforcement Learning Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models, arXiv:1511.09249 Paper  (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.09249)

Datasets
⟡ Speech Recognition
  ⟡ OpenSLR (http://www.openslr.org/resources.php) (Open Speech and Language Resources)
* **LibriSpeech ASR corpus** (http://www.openslr.org/12/)
  ⟡ VoxForge (http://voxforge.org/home)
⟡ Image Captioning
  ⟡ Flickr 8k (http://nlp.cs.illinois.edu/HockenmaierGroup/Framing_Image_Description/KCCA.html)
  ⟡ Flickr 30k (http://shannon.cs.illinois.edu/DenotationGraph/)
  ⟡ Microsoft COCO (http://mscoco.org/home/)
⟡ Question Answering
  ⟡ The bAbI Project (http://fb.ai/babi) - Dataset for text understanding and reasoning, by Facebook AI Research. Contains:
* The (20) QA bAbI tasks - ****Paper** (http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05698)**                                   
* The (6) dialog bAbI tasks - ****Paper** (http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.07683)**                                
* The Children's Book Test - ****Paper** (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02301)**                                 
* The Movie Dialog dataset - ****Paper** (http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06931)**                                 
* The MovieQA dataset - ****Data** (http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/babi/movie_dialog_dataset.tgz)** 
* The Dialog-based Language Learning dataset - ****Paper** (http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06045)**               
* The SimpleQuestions dataset - ****Paper** (http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02075)**                              
  ⟡ SQuAD (https://stanford-qa.com/) - Stanford Question Answering Dataset :  Paper (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05250) 
⟡ Image Question Answering
  ⟡ DAQUAR (https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/computer-vision-and-multimodal-computing/research/vision-and-language/visual-turing-challenge/) - built upon NYU Depth v2 (http://cs.nyu.edu/~silberman/datasets/nyu_depth_v2.html) by N. Silberman
et al.
  ⟡ VQA (http://www.visualqa.org/) - based on MSCOCO (http://mscoco.org/) images
  ⟡ Image QA (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mren/imageqa/data/cocoqa/) - based on MSCOCO images
  ⟡ Multilingual Image QA (http://idl.baidu.com/FM-IQA.html) - built from scratch by Baidu - in Chinese, with English translation
⟡ Action Recognition
  ⟡ THUMOS (http://www.thumos.info/home.html) : Large-scale action recognition dataset
  ⟡ MultiTHUMOS (http://ai.stanford.edu/~syyeung/resources/multithumos.zip) : Extension of THUMOS '14 action detection dataset with dense multilabele annotation

Blogs
⟡ The Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs (http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/) by Andrej Karpathy (http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/)
⟡ Understanding LSTM Networks (http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/) in Colah's blog (http://colah.github.io/)
⟡ WildML (http://www.wildml.com/) blog's RNN tutorial Part1 (http://www.wildml.com/2015/09/recurrent-neural-networks-tutorial-part-1-introduction-to-rnns/) , Part2 
(http://www.wildml.com/2015/09/recurrent-neural-networks-tutorial-part-2-implementing-a-language-model-rnn-with-python-numpy-and-theano/) , Part3 
(http://www.wildml.com/2015/10/recurrent-neural-networks-tutorial-part-3-backpropagation-through-time-and-vanishing-gradients/) , Part4 
(http://www.wildml.com/2015/10/recurrent-neural-network-tutorial-part-4-implementing-a-grulstm-rnn-with-python-and-theano/) 
⟡ RNNs in Tensorflow, a Practical Guide and Undocumented Features (http://www.wildml.com/2016/08/rnns-in-tensorflow-a-practical-guide-and-undocumented-features/)
⟡ Optimizing RNN Performance (https://svail.github.io/) from Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab.
⟡ Character Level Language modelling using RNN (http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/yoavg/d76121dfde2618422139) by Yoav Goldberg
⟡ Implement an RNN in Python (http://peterroelants.github.io/posts/rnn_implementation_part01/).
⟡ LSTM Backpropogation (http://arunmallya.github.io/writeups/nn/lstm/index.html#/)
⟡ Introduction to Recurrent Networks in TensorFlow (https://danijar.com/introduction-to-recurrent-networks-in-tensorflow/) by Danijar Hafner
⟡ Variable Sequence Lengths in TensorFlow (https://danijar.com/variable-sequence-lengths-in-tensorflow/) by Danijar Hafner
⟡ Written Memories: Understanding, Deriving and Extending the LSTM (http://r2rt.com/written-memories-understanding-deriving-and-extending-the-lstm.html) by Silviu Pitis

Online Demos
⟡ Alex graves, hand-writing generation link (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~graves/handwriting.html) 
⟡ Ink Poster: Handwritten post-it notes link (http://www.inkposter.com/?) 
⟡ LSTMVis: Visual Analysis for Recurrent Neural Networks link (http://lstm.seas.harvard.edu/) 

rnn Github: https://github.com/kjw0612/awesome-rnn