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Sepp Hochreiter
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Sepp Hochreiter

Identified the vanishing gradient problem and co-invented LSTM.

b. 1967GermanyProfessor, Johannes Kepler University LinzCo-founder, NXAI
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Known for
LSTMxLSTM

2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

  1. 2023–now3 yrsNXAICo-founder
  2. 2006–now20 yrsJohannes Kepler University LinzProfessor

0 Books & papersPublished work, oldest first

No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.

LineageWho taught whom. Most of this field descends from a handful of laboratories, and the shortest path between two researchers is usually an advisor.

Studied underdoctoral or postdoctoral advisors
Jürgen SchmidhuberJürgen Schmidhuber

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