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CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition Comprehensive online course notes covering convolutional neural networks for visual recognition.Fundamental resource for learning about CNNs, widely used in computer vision.
Understanding LSTM Networks A detailed explanation of how Long Short-Term Memory networks work.Essential reading for understanding LSTMs, a key component in early sequence modeling.
The Annotated Transformer An implementation and explanation of the Transformer model from 'Attention Is All You Need' using PyTorch.Crucial resource for understanding the Transformer architecture, which is foundational for modern NLP.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs An exploration of the capabilities and surprising effectiveness of simple Recurrent Neural Networks on various sequence tasks.Highlights the power of simple RNNs and the importance of data and computational resources.
Neural Machine Translation Introduces an end-to-end neural network for machine translation.A foundational paper in the development of neural machine translation.
Attention Is All You Need Proposes the Transformer model, relying solely on attention mechanisms, achieving state-of-the-art results in machine translation.Revolutionized sequence modeling by demonstrating the effectiveness of attention mechanisms, leading to the development of models like BERT and GPT.
ImageNet Classification with Deep CNNs (AlexNet) Pioneering work using deep convolutional neural networks for image classification on the ImageNet dataset.Demonstrated the power of deep learning for image recognition and spurred significant research in the field.
Recurrent Neural Network Regularization Introduces dropout and recurrent dropout for regularizing Recurrent Neural Networks.Introduced important regularization techniques for RNNs to combat overfitting.
Pointer Networks Proposes a sequence-to-sequence model that learns to select output elements from an input sequence based on attention.Useful for tasks where the output is a subset of the input, like sequence-to-sequence tasks with limited vocabulary.
Relation Networks Introduces a module that learns to reason about relationships between entities.Applicable to tasks requiring relational reasoning, such as question answering and visual reasoning.
Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks Investigates the importance of identity mappings in deep residual networks and proposes a revised Residual Network architecture.Contributed to the understanding and improvement of very deep residual networks.
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition Introduces Residual Networks (ResNets) that use skip connections to enable training very deep neural networks.A landmark paper that enabled training much deeper networks and significantly improved performance on various tasks.
Multi-Scale Context Aggregation by Dilated Convolutions Proposes dilated convolutions for increasing the receptive field without losing resolution, useful for semantic segmentation.Important for tasks requiring a wide receptive field, such as dense prediction tasks.
Neural Message Passing for Quantum Chemistry Applies neural message passing to predict molecular properties.Shows how neural networks can be applied to problems in computational chemistry.
Neural Turing Machines Introduces a neural network architecture that combines aspects of neural networks and Turing machines, allowing for external memory interaction.Explores the potential for neural networks to learn algorithmic procedures.
Variational Lossy Autoencoder Proposes a variational autoencoder that learns a disentangled representation.Contributes to the field of generative models and learning disentangled representations.
Relational RNNs Introduces a recurrent neural network architecture that explicitly models relationships between states.Offers a way to explicitly model relationships within sequences.
Deep Speech 2 An end-to-end deep learning approach for speech recognition.Demonstrates the effectiveness of end-to-end deep learning for speech recognition.
GPipe Describes a system for training very large neural networks by partitioning them across multiple accelerators.Enables training of much larger models than previously possible, pushing the boundaries of model size.
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models Studies how the performance of large language models scales with the size of the dataset, model, and compute.Provides insights into how to effectively scale language models to achieve better performance.
MDL for Neural Weights Explores using Minimum Description Length (MDL) to understand and regularize neural network weights.Offers a theoretical framework for understanding and regularizing neural networks based on compression.
MDL Tutorial A tutorial on the Minimum Description Length principle.Provides a deeper understanding of the MDL principle and its applications.
The First Law of Complexodynamics A theoretical exploration of the thermodynamics of computation.A theoretical work exploring the fundamental limits of computation.
Coffee Automaton A simple cellular automaton demonstrating complex behavior.A simple model demonstrating how complex behavior can emerge from simple rules.
Kolmogorov Complexity and Algorithmic Randomness Introduces the concepts of Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic randomness.Provides the theoretical foundation for measuring the complexity and randomness of individual objects.
Machine Super Intelligence Discusses the potential and implications of achieving machine super intelligence.A thought-provoking discussion on the future potential of AI.