Deep Learning Foundation
Awesome Deep Learning Foundations (2012–2016)
Trace the origins of the AI revolution. This curated collection features the seminal deep learning papers published between 2012 and 2016—the era that birthed modern computer vision and natural language processing. From the breakthrough of AlexNet (ImageNet) and the introduction of Dropout, to the architectural leaps of VGG, Inception, and ResNet. This roadmap provides a structured path for understanding the mathematical and architectural foundations that power today’s Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI. Mastery of Artificial Intelligence begins with the classics. This guide provides a hand-picked selection of highly-cited deep learning papers published between 2012 and 2016. These works introduced the world to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). Explore the seminal research that serves as the backbone for today's Large Language Models and autonomous systems.
- Jifeng Dai, Haozhi Qi, Yuwen Xiong, Yi Li, Guodong Zhang, Han Hu, Yichen Wei20179,895 checkouts
- Taeksoo Kim, Moonsu Cha, Hyunsoo Kim, Jungkwon Lee, Jiwon Kim20177,599 checkouts
- Sercan O. Arik, Mike Chrzanowski, Adam Coates, Gregory Diamos, Andrew Gibiansky, Yongguo Kang, Xian Li, John Miller, Andrew Ng, Jonathan Raiman, Shubho Sengupta, Mohammad Shoeybi20179,257 checkouts
- Aayush Bansal, Xinlei Chen, Bryan Russell, Abhinav Gupta, Deva Ramanan20177,787 checkouts
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- Martin Arjovsky, Soumith Chintala, Léon Bottou20179,773 checkouts
- Chiyuan Zhang, Samy Bengio, Moritz Hardt, Benjamin Recht, Oriol Vinyals20176,866 checkouts
- Xudong Mao, Qing Li, Haoran Xie, Raymond Y. K. Lau, Zhen Wang20179,292 checkouts
- Ronan Collobert, Jason Weston, Leon Bottou, Michael Karlen, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Pavel Kuksa20115,628 checkouts
- Pranav Rajpurkar, Jian Zhang, Konstantin Lopyrev, Percy Liang20168,345 checkouts
- Greg Brockman, Vicki Cheung, Ludwig Pettersson, Jonas Schneider, John Schulman, Jie Tang, Wojciech Zaremba20166,666 checkouts
- Martín Abadi, Ashish Agarwal, Paul Barham, Eugene Brevdo, Zhifeng Chen, Craig Citro, Greg S. Corrado, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu Devin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Ian Goodfellow, Andrew Harp, Geoffrey Irving, Michael Isard, Yangqing Jia, Rafal Jozefowicz, Lukasz Kaiser, Manjunath Kudlur, Josh Levenberg, Dan Mane, Rajat Monga, Sherry Moore, Derek Murray, Chris Olah, Mike Schuster, Jonathon Shlens, Benoit Steiner, Ilya Sutskever, Kunal Talwar, Paul Tucker, Vincent Vanhoucke, Vijay Vasudevan, Fernanda Viegas, Oriol Vinyals, Pete Warden, Martin Wattenberg, Martin Wicke, Yuan Yu, Xiaoqiang Zheng20169,579 checkouts
- Andrea Vedaldi, Karel Lenc20169,201 checkouts
- Olga Russakovsky, Jia Deng, Hao Su, Jonathan Krause, Sanjeev Satheesh, Sean Ma, Zhiheng Huang, Andrej Karpathy, Aditya Khosla, Michael Bernstein, Alexander C. Berg, Li Fei-Fei20157,310 checkouts
- Yangqing Jia, Evan Shelhamer, Jeff Donahue, Sergey Karayev, Jonathan Long, Ross Girshick, Sergio Guadarrama, Trevor Darrell20149,532 checkouts
- Haohan Wang, Bhiksha Raj20175,683 checkouts
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- Klaus Greff, Rupesh Kumar Srivastava, Jan Koutník, Bas R. Steunebrink, Jürgen Schmidhuber20178,092 checkouts
- Carl Doersch20218,295 checkouts
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