Early Highway Failures

Early Improving Recurrent Elastic Highway Network

To model time-varying nonlinear temporal dynamics in sequential data, a recurrent network capable of varying and adjusting the recurrence depth between input intervals is examined. The recurrence depth is extended by several intermediate hidden state units, and the weight parameters involved in determining these units are dynamically calculated. The motivation behind the paper lies on overcomin...

Making a Success out of Early Failures

Promoting early failure of unsuccessful computations is a powerful optimization that enhances determinism in the evaluation of logic programs. This optimization has two principal components: 1) identifying and extracting conditions that yield information about the eventual success or failure of predicates, 2) exploiting these conditions to avoid unnecessary computation. For the rst part sophist...

Early Failures Benefit Subsequent Task Performance

Animals navigate using cognitive maps. However, how they adaptively exploit these maps in changing environments is not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the problem-solving behaviors of mice in a complicated maze in which multiple routes with different intersections were available (Test 1). Although all mice eventually settled on the shortest route, mice that initially exhibited ...

Protecting Data against Early Disk Failures

Disk drives are known to fail at a higher rate during their first year of operation than during the remaining years of their useful lifetime. We propose to use the free space that normally exists on new disks to minimize the risk of data loss during that first year. Our technique applies to disk arrays that mirror their data on two disks. Whenever a disk fails, the array will reorganize itself ...

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