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Saturday, 24 October 2026Weekend classics: the landmark papers behind today’s AI
- Multimodal & Vision
Residual connections enable training of very deep neural networks with improved accuracy
This paper introduces residual learning, reformulating layers to learn residual functions with identity shortcuts, enabling training of networks up to 152 layers deep. On ImageNet, a 152-layer residual net achieves 3.57% top-5 error, winning ILSVRC 2015.
Paper: Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition · Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren and 1 other
Classic · 20155 min readRead the article
- Training & Efficiency
Adam optimizer adapts learning rates using moment estimates for efficient stochastic optimization
Adam is a first-order stochastic optimization algorithm that uses adaptive estimates of lower-order moments of gradients, offering computational efficiency, low memory use, and robustness to noisy or sparse gradients, with strong theoretical convergence guarantees and practical performance.
Paper: Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization · Diederik P. Kingma, Jimmy Ba
Classic · 20145 min readRead the article
- Training & Efficiency
Batch Normalization stabilizes layer inputs to speed up deep network training
Batch Normalization normalizes layer inputs per mini-batch, reducing internal covariate shift, enabling higher learning rates, faster convergence, and improved accuracy on ImageNet, surpassing previous state-of-the-art and human-level performance.
Paper: Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift · Sergey Ioffe, Christian Szegedy
Classic · 20156 min readRead the article
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