{
  "id": "1511.06279",
  "title": "Neural Programmer-Interpreters",
  "authors": "Scott Reed, Nando de Freitas",
  "first_public": "2015-11-19",
  "first_public_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06279",
  "arxiv_first_submission": "2015-11-19",
  "date_label": "arXiv v1",
  "arxiv": "1511.06279",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06279",
  "venue": "ICLR 2016",
  "lens": [
    "neural-programs"
  ],
  "related_terms": [
    "neural programmer-interpreter",
    "neural programs",
    "program memory",
    "compositional execution"
  ],
  "summary": "Learns neural programs that share a recurrent interpreter and a program memory.",
  "contribution": "Learns from execution traces and composes subprograms for addition, sorting, and 3D-object canonicalization.",
  "limitations": "Training requires execution traces and task-specific interfaces.",
  "program_form": "Program embeddings stored in a key-value memory.",
  "conditioning": "A program identifier, arguments, and observations of the environment.",
  "execution": "A recurrent interpreter calls subprograms and takes actions in the environment.",
  "relationship": "PAW cites this work on learned program representations and shared interpreters.",
  "relationship_source": "https://arxiv.org/html/2607.02512v1#S10",
  "provenance": "arXiv record and paper.",
  "author_names": [
    "Scott Reed",
    "Nando de Freitas"
  ],
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  "publication": {
    "title": "Neural Programmer-Interpreters",
    "author_names": [
      "Scott Reed",
      "Nando de Freitas"
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    "year": 2016,
    "type": "paper-conference",
    "container_title": "International Conference on Learning Representations",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06279",
    "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06279",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-19",
    "source_note": "The paper PDF identifies ICLR 2016; the conference program confirms the presentation."
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