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.
- Juergen Schmidhuber20146,278 checkouts
- Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, Pascal Vincent20149,335 checkouts
- Junyoung Chung, Kyunghyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio20165,914 checkouts
- Andre Esteva, Brett Kuprel, Roberto A. Novoa, Justin Ko, Susan M. Swetter, Helen M. Blau, Sebastian Thrun20176,607 checkouts
- Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis, Jakob Verbeek, Cordelia Schmid20169,718 checkouts
- Mohammad Havaei, Axel Davy, David Warde-Farley, Antoine Biard, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio, Chris Pal, Pierre-Marc Jodoin, Hugo Larochelle20166,005 checkouts
- Alex Lamb, Anirudh Goyal, Ying Zhang, Saizheng Zhang, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio20166,207 checkouts
- Vincent Dumoulin, Ishmael Belghazi, Ben Poole, Alex Lamb, Martin Arjovsky, Olivier Mastropietro, Aaron Courville20168,356 checkouts
- Jayanth Koushik20165,724 checkouts
- 20175,844 checkouts
- Gao Huang, Zhuang Liu, Kilian Q. Weinberger20166,476 checkouts
- Danqi Chen, Jason Bolton, Christopher D. Manning20169,102 checkouts
- Minh-Thang Luong, Christopher D. Manning20165,860 checkouts
- Alexis Conneau, Holger Schwenk, Loïc Barrault, Yann Lecun20177,959 checkouts
- Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Tomas Mikolov20168,545 checkouts
- Jacob Andreas, Marcus Rohrbach, Trevor Darrell, Dan Klein20169,467 checkouts
- Justin Johnson, Alexandre Alahi, Li Fei-Fei20165,968 checkouts
- Max Jaderberg, Karen Simonyan, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman20149,601 checkouts
- Jan Hosang, Rodrigo Benenson, Piotr Dollár, Bernt Schiele20156,321 checkouts
- Gao Huang, Yu Sun, Zhuang Liu, Daniel Sedra, Kilian Weinberger20165,691 checkouts
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