How does LSTM work?

LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) cells are the most commonly used RNN cell nowadays. Don’t be scared of the math! We will slowly clarify every term by inspecting every equation separately.

LSTM is the most popular RNN because it has a special memory component denoted by cc in the equations. It represents long-term memory.

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