Recurrent Neural Network

A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) processes sequences such as text, audio, or time-series data by maintaining a hidden state that carries information from one step to the next. This makes RNNs naturally suited for tasks where order matters — predicting the next word in a sentence, recognizing speech, or forecasting stock prices. Classic vanilla RNNs struggle with long sequences due to vanishing gradients, which led to improved variants like LSTM and GRU. RNNs powered early breakthroughs in machine translation, speech recognition (in Google Voice and Apple Siri), and sentiment analysis. While newer transformer architectures have overtaken RNNs for most language tasks since around 2018, RNNs remain important in legacy enterprise AI systems and in latency-sensitive use cases like real-time signal processing. AI governance frameworks require documenting RNN architectures and behaviors for AI compliance, supporting responsible AI and ongoing AI risk management as these systems age in production.

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