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  1. 2017

    Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

    arXiv

    A 2017 paper by Schulman, Wolski, Dhariwal, Radford and Klimov that introduced proximal policy optimization (PPO), a reinforcement learning method that is much simpler to implement and tune and became OpenAI's default RL algorithm.

    Research historyDeep learningRobotics

  2. 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.

    Deep learningHardware & computeCloud

  3. 1990

    Elephants Don't Play Chess

    Rodney Brooks's 1990 paper argued for building artificial intelligence from the ground up, with ongoing physical interaction with the environment as the main constraint on design, rather than through the abstract manipulation of symbols that had dominated the field for roughly thirty years.

    Research historyRoboticsScience

  4. 1988

    ALVINN: An Autonomous Land Vehicle in a Neural Network

    ANIPS11

    A 3-layer back-propagation network that takes camera and laser range finder images and outputs the direction to steer, trained on simulated road images and tested on Carnegie Mellon's autonomous navigation test vehicle.

    Research historyRoboticsComputer vision