# What is an LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) network, and what are its use cases?

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## Short answer

A Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network is a type of recurrent neural network with gating mechanisms that let it learn long-range dependencies in sequential data without the vanishing-gradient problems of vanilla RNNs.

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