{"slug": "modular-deep-recurrent-neural-network-application-to-quadrotors", "title": "Modular Deep Recurrent Neural Network: Application to Quadrotors", "summary": "Researchers introduced a modular deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) architecture that adds feedforward inter-layer connections to improve learning of high-order dynamics and nonlinearities, alleviating vanishing/exploding gradients in multilayer RNNs. In a quadrotor case study, the new network learned altitude dynamics where existing methods failed to generalize, as reported in arXiv:2609.04339v1.", "body_md": "arXiv:2609.04339v1 Announce Type: new \nAbstract: A modular deep Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is introduced to facilitate the process of deploying various architectures of RNNs, and to automatically compute derivatives for gradient-based learning methods. The modularity leads to a set of new architectures, one of which includes feedforward inter-layer connections. By adding feedforward inter-layer connections in a multi-layer RNN, it is observed that the capability of the RNN to learn and model high-order dynamics and nonlinearities is significantly improved. The problem of vanishing/exploding gradient in space for a multilayer RNN is also alleviated using feedforward connections. These results are demonstrated using a quadrotor case study, for which a model of the altitude dynamics is learned with our particular network structure, while existing methods are unable to generalize as quickly or at all.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/modular-deep-recurrent-neural-network-application-to-quadrotors", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04339", "published_at": "2026-09-07 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 04:27:02.597647+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "neural-networks", "ai-research"], "entities": ["arXiv"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/modular-deep-recurrent-neural-network-application-to-quadrotors", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/modular-deep-recurrent-neural-network-application-to-quadrotors.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/modular-deep-recurrent-neural-network-application-to-quadrotors.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/modular-deep-recurrent-neural-network-application-to-quadrotors.jsonld"}}