Here is a curated list of some of the most influential papers in the field of machine learning. These papers have shaped the way we understand and apply machine learning algorithms today.

Top Papers

  • Deep Learning: This seminal paper by Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and Yann LeCun introduces the concept of deep learning and its potential for transforming machine learning.
  • Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition: This paper by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton introduces the AlexNet architecture, which significantly improved the performance of convolutional neural networks in image recognition tasks.
  • Generative Adversarial Nets: This paper by Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, Bing Xu, David Warde-Farley, Sherjil Ozair, Aaron Courville, and Yoshua Bengio introduces the concept of generative adversarial networks (GANs), which have become a popular method for generating realistic images and other data.

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