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Machine Learning Intermediate

forget gate

The portion of a Long Short-Term Memory cell that regulates the flow of information through the cell.

The portion of a Long Short-Term Memory cell that regulates the flow of information through the cell. Forget gates maintain context by deciding which information to discard from the cell state.

Practitioners refer to forget gate when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.