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  1. 2016

    Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation

    arXiv

    A 2016 paper describing Google's neural machine translation system, GNMT: a deep LSTM encoder-decoder with attention, designed to make end-to-end translation practical by addressing rare words, parallelism and inference cost.

    Research historyDeep learningTransformers & attention

  2. 2014

    Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate

    ICLR

    Submitted to arXiv in September 2014 by Dzmitry Bahdanau, Kyunghyun Cho and Yoshua Bengio, this paper let a translation model look back at the whole source sentence while producing each word. This mechanism, called attention, later became a basis for Transformer models.

    Large language modelsResearch historyDeep learning

  3. 2011

    Torch7: A Matlab-like Environment for Machine Learning

    A 2011 workshop paper by Ronan Collobert, Koray Kavukcuoglu and Clement Farabet describing Torch7, a Lua-based numeric computing framework and machine learning library built for flexible experimentation on fast low-level kernels.

    Research historyOpen sourceDeep learning

  4. 2010

    Understanding the difficulty of training deep feedforward neural networks

    AISTATS / PMLR

    A 2010 paper by Xavier Glorot and Yoshua Bengio on why deep feedforward networks are hard to train: sigmoid saturation under random initialization and layer Jacobians whose singular values sit far from 1, plus a new initialization scheme that converges substantially faster.

    Research historyDeep learningDeveloper tools

  5. 2004

    MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

    OSDI

    Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat's 2004 OSDI paper presents MapReduce, a programming model in which users write a map function and a reduce function while the run-time system parallelizes the work across large clusters of commodity machines.

    Research historyData & datasetsDeveloper tools