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.
- Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Sumit Chopra, Alexander M. Rush, Bart van Merriënboer, Armand Joulin, Tomas Mikolov20159,254 checkouts
- Ankit Kumar, Ozan Irsoy, Peter Ondruska, Mohit Iyyer, James Bradbury, Ishaan Gulrajani, Victor Zhong, Romain Paulus, Richard Socher20169,622 checkouts
- Song Han, Huizi Mao, William J. Dally20166,821 checkouts
- Kai Sheng Tai, Richard Socher, Christopher D. Manning20155,800 checkouts
- Yoon Kim, Yacine Jernite, David Sontag, Alexander M. Rush20158,688 checkouts
- Hyeonwoo Noh, Seunghoon Hong, Bohyung Han20159,287 checkouts
- Jason Yosinski, Jeff Clune, Anh Nguyen, Thomas Fuchs, Hod Lipson20159,801 checkouts
- Andrej Karpathy, Justin Johnson, Li Fei-Fei20157,168 checkouts
- Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le20156,651 checkouts
- Volodymyr Mnih, Nicolas Heess, Alex Graves, Koray Kavukcuoglu20149,074 checkouts
- Junyoung Chung, Caglar Gulcehre, KyungHyun Cho, Yoshua Bengio20145,650 checkouts
- Minh-Thang Luong, Ilya Sutskever, Quoc V. Le, Oriol Vinyals, Wojciech Zaremba20157,250 checkouts
- Wojciech Zaremba, Ilya Sutskever, Oriol Vinyals20155,426 checkouts
- Christian Szegedy, Wojciech Zaremba, Ilya Sutskever, Joan Bruna, Dumitru Erhan, Ian Goodfellow, Rob Fergus20149,169 checkouts
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