GRU

Abbreviation with 2 meanings

GRU
Stands forSão Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport
Meanings2
CategoriesTransportation & Travel, Technology & Computing

GRU has two meanings. It stands for São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport (airport code) or Gated recurrent unit (artificial intelligence).

Meanings of GRU at a glance

#GRU stands forContext
1São Paulo-Guarulhos International AirportTransportation & Travel › Airport Code
2Gated recurrent unitTechnology & Computing › Artificial Intelligence

1. São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport

Transportation & Travel · Airport Code Abbreviations

South America's busiest airport and the main hub of LATAM Brasil, located in Guarulhos about 25 kilometers northeast of central São Paulo.

Example: Traffic to GRU on a Friday afternoon can take two hours, so leave early.

ICAO code SBGR. Officially named for Governor André Franco Montoro. The code comes from Guarulhos, the city where it is located. São Paulo's downtown Congonhas airport (CGH) handles domestic shuttles, including the busy route to Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airport.

2. Gated recurrent unit

Technology & Computing · Artificial Intelligence Abbreviations

A simplified recurrent neural network cell with two gates, update and reset, that captures long-range dependencies like an LSTM with fewer parameters and faster training.

Example: Swapping the LSTM for a GRU cut training time by a quarter with no loss of accuracy.

Introduced by Kyunghyun Cho and colleagues in 2014 in work on neural machine translation. Comparisons with LSTMs are mixed and depend on the task. Like other recurrent networks, GRUs have largely been displaced by transformers for language.

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