Title
Recurrent Independent Mechanisms
Abstract
Learning modular structures which reflect the dynamics of the environment can lead to better generalization and robustness to changes which only affect a few of the underlying causes. We propose Recurrent Independent Mechanisms (RIMs), a new recurrent architecture in which multiple groups of recurrent cells operate with nearly independent transition dynamics, communicate only sparingly through the bottleneck of attention, and are only updated at time steps where they are most relevant. We show that this leads to specialization amongst the RIMs, which in turn allows for dramatically improved generalization on tasks where some factors of variation differ systematically between training and evaluation.
Year
Venue
DocType
2021
ICLR
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anirudh Goyal126420.97
Alex Lamb226818.84
Hoffmann, Jordan320.70
Sodhani Shagun400.34
Sergey Levine53377182.21
Yoshua Bengio6426773039.83
Bernhard Schölkopf7231203091.82