# Adaptive Computation Time for Recurrent Neural Networks

Authors: Alex Graves.

Introduces learned, input-dependent computation time for recurrent networks.

First public: 2016-03-29.
ArXiv initial submission: 2016-03-29.

[Original paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08983) · [Reading-list entry](https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/1603.08983/)
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