Jürgen Schmidhuber
Author of the LSTM
Long short-term memory, and insisting he did it first
Rating
92Impact score
Domains
Recurrent networksLSTMMeta-learning
Scouting report
With Sepp Hochreiter published long short-term memory in 1997, the architecture that made sequence learning work and which ran speech recognition and translation on a billion phones before transformers arrived. Also did early work on meta-learning, artificial curiosity and GAN-adjacent ideas, and is famous for pointing out, at length, when the field forgets its own history.
Curator’s note
Difficult, frequently correct, and the priority disputes are usually worth reading.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Jürgen Schmidhuber by ITU/R.Farrell, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Jürgen Schmidhuber en.wikipedia.org
- 02Long Short-Term Memory (1997) bioinf.jku.at