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Papers that changed AI, with a plain-language explainer for each.
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- 2014
Generative Adversarial Nets
arXiv
Goodfellow, Bengio, and co-authors proposed a generative-model framework with adversarially trained generator and discriminator.
- 2014
Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Context
arXiv
A 2014 paper introducing Microsoft COCO, a large dataset of everyday scenes in which common objects are labeled with per-instance segmentations, built to study object recognition as part of scene understanding.
- 2014
Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting
JMLR
A 2014 paper by Srivastava, Hinton, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov introducing dropout, a training trick that randomly removes units so large neural networks overfit less.
- 2014
DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification
CVPR 2014
DeepFace is a 2014 face verification pipeline that rebuilt the alignment and representation stages of the standard face pipeline, reaching 97.35% accuracy on Labeled Faces in the Wild with a nine-layer network of over 120 million parameters.
- 2013
Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes
arXiv
A 2013 paper by Diederik P. Kingma and Max Welling that introduced a stochastic variational inference and learning algorithm for directed latent-variable models with intractable posteriors, making approximate inference practical on large datasets.
- 2013
Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning
arXiv
A 2013 paper by Mnih, Kavukcuoglu, Silver and colleagues showed a convolutional neural network trained with a Q-learning variant learning to play seven Atari 2600 games directly from raw pixels, beating prior methods on six and human experts on three.
- 2013
Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks
arXiv / ECCV 2014
Zeiler and Fergus ask why large convolutional networks perform so well on ImageNet, introduce a visualization technique for intermediate layers, and use ablation to find an architecture that outperforms Krizhevsky et al. The model also transfers to Caltech-101 and Caltech-256.
- 2013
Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation
arXiv
R-CNN, posted to arXiv by Girshick, Donahue, Darrell and Malik in November 2013, applied convolutional neural networks to region proposals for object detection and lifted mean average precision on PASCAL VOC 2012 to 53.3%, more than 30% above the previous best[^1].
- 2013
Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
arXiv
A 2013 paper by Mikolov, Sutskever, Chen, Corrado and Dean presents continuous Skip-gram as an efficient method for learning distributed word and phrase representations, with extensions that improve vector quality and training speed.
- 2013
Speech Recognition with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
arXiv
A 2013 paper by Graves, Mohamed and Hinton that examines deep recurrent neural networks for speech recognition, arguing for end-to-end sequence training with methods such as connectionist temporal classification.
- 2013
Maxout Networks
arXiv
A 2013 paper by Goodfellow, Warde-Farley, Mirza, Courville and Bengio introduces maxout units, whose output is the maximum of a set of inputs, designed to work with dropout, and reports state-of-the-art results on four benchmarks.
- 2013
Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
arXiv
Submitted to arXiv in January 2013 by Tomas Mikolov and colleagues at Google, this paper introduced CBOW and Skip-gram, two simple architectures that learn word vectors quickly from very large text collections. They are the basis of the word2vec project.
- 2012
Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks
NeurIPS
A 2012 NIPS paper by Jeffrey Dean, Andrew Ng and colleagues that introduced DistBelief, a framework for training deep networks across clusters of thousands of machines, together with the Downpour SGD and Sandblaster optimisation procedures.
- 2012
Deep Neural Networks for Acoustic Modeling in Speech Recognition: The Shared Views of Four Research Groups
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
A 2012 article in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in which four research groups argued that deep neural networks, replacing Gaussian mixture models, gave better acoustic models for speech recognition.
- 2012
Building High-level Features Using Large Scale Unsupervised Learning
ICML
In 2012, Quoc Le, Andrew Ng and colleagues trained a large unsupervised neural network on 10 million internet images and showed it could detect faces without a single labelled face.
- 2012
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
NeurIPS
The 2012 NeurIPS paper that introduced AlexNet, a large convolutional network trained on GPUs. It won the ILSVRC-2012 image classification competition by a wide margin and is widely seen as a turning point for deep learning in computer vision.
- 2011
Deep Sparse Rectifier Neural Networks
A 2011 paper by Glorot, Bordes and Bengio reporting that deep networks built from rectifying neurons match or beat tanh networks and reach their best performance without unsupervised pre-training on large labelled supervised tasks.
- 2011
Natural Language Processing (Almost) from Scratch
A 2011 Journal of Machine Learning Research paper by Collobert, Weston, Bottou, Karlen, Kavukcuoglu and Kuksa, presenting one neural network architecture and learning algorithm for part-of-speech tagging, chunking, named entity recognition and semantic role labeling, trained on mostly unlabeled data with little task-specific engineering.
- 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.
- 2011
Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from a Single Depth Image
A CVPR 2011 Best Paper that recovers 3D body joint positions from a single depth image without temporal information, by classifying pixels into body parts, and runs at 200 frames per second on consumer hardware.