1970 ⟶ Linnainmaa Publishes Reverse Mode Automatic Differentiation
Seppo Linnainmaa publishes the reverse mode of automatic dif...Year
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📐 Leibniz's Derivation of the Chain Rule
Leibniz derived the Chain rule. The rule is used by AI to train neural networks, for example the Backpropagation algorithm uses the Chain rule.⟶

CalculusMathematicsChain RuleNeural NetworksBackpropagationMachine LearningOptimization

🧮 Linnainmaa Publishes Reverse Mode Automatic Differentiation
Seppo Linnainmaa publishes the reverse mode of Automatic differentiation. This method became later known as Backpropagation, and is heavily used to train Artificial neural networks.⟶

BackpropagationAutomatic DifferentiationNeural NetworksMachine LearningDeep LearningOptimizationTraining AlgorithmsSeppo Linnainmaa

➕ Highway and Residual Networks Developed for Deep Learning
Two techniques were developed concurrently to train very deep networks: Highway network, and the Residual neural network (ResNet). They allowed over 1000-layers-deep networks to be trained.⟶

Deep LearningNeural NetworksHighway NetworksResidual NetworksResNetTraining Techniques