Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition on “Papers I Keep Rereading”, a list by Andre Coleman on TheLysts.
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Authors
Yann LeCun, Léon Bottou, Yoshua Bengio, Patrick Haffner
Year
1998
Field
Machine learning / Computer vision
Why it stuck
The LeNet paper — early CNNs crushing handwritten digits; it’s like watching a grainy rookie-season tape of a superstar before deep learning went full superstar.
My take
Whenever someone acts like deep learning started with their favorite GitHub repo from 2015, I quietly send them this PDF and a friendly “box score from ‘98” analogy.