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On a timeseries problem that we try to solve using RNNs the input usually has the shape input_features * timesteps * batchsize and we then feed this input into recurrent layers. An alternative I see would be to flatten the data so that the shape is (input_features * timesteps) * batchsize and use a fully connected layer for our timeseries task. This would clearly work and our Dense Network would be able to find dependencies between the data at different timesteps as well. So what is it that makes recurrent layers more powerful? I would be very thankful for an intuitive explanation.









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