Hacker Papers
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Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2019Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
- Nov 2023Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model (2019)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Nov 2019AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
- Nov 2019DeepMind's MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
- Dec 2019Minecraft diamond challenge leaves AI creators stumped
- Aug 2020AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
- Dec 2020MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)
- Sep 2025'World Models,' an old idea in AI, mount a comeback
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Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between Human and Machine Translation
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Google’s Neural Machine Translation System
- Sep 2016Google's Neural Machine Translation: Bridging the Gap Between Humans and Machines
- Sep 2016Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI
- Oct 2016Learning Reinforcement Learning, with Code, Exercises, and Solutions
- Nov 2016Found in translation: More accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017XLA: The TensorFlow compiler framework
- Feb 2017Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
- Mar 2018Using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English
- Dec 2020Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?
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Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Google's AlphaZero Beats Stockfish In 100-Game Match
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
- Feb 2018Lessons from Optics, the Other Deep Learning
- Feb 2018Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI
- Nov 2019John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
- Feb 2023Poisoning Web-Scale Training Datasets Is Practical
- Jul 2023Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind?
- May 2025Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
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Binarized Neural Networks: Training Deep Neural Networks with Weights and Activations Constrained to +1 or -1
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2016Stacked Approximated Regression Machine: A Simple Deep Learning Approach
- Oct 2016Intel will add deep-learning instructions to its processors
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Sep 2017Nonlinear Computation in Deep Linear Networks
- Oct 2018MIT AGI: Conversation with Yoshua Bengio [video]
- Nov 2019Deep Learning and Its Implications for Computer Architecture and Chip Design
- Feb 2024The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
- Mar 2024Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models
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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016Debiasing Word Embeddings
- Jul 2016Man Is to Computer Programmer as Woman Is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embedding
- Jan 2017Man to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
- Sep 2016A.I. Doesn't Get Black Twitter
- Jul 2017Ask HN: Any tools to easily cluster ideas/notes by similarity?
- Oct 2017Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence’s Implicit Bias Problem
- Mar 2018Show HN: Word2Bits – Quantized Word Vectors
- Oct 2018Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything
- Jul 2019King – Man + Woman = King?
- Sep 2019600k Images Removed from ImageNet After Art Project Exposes Racist Bias
- Sep 2020FB to curb internal debate over sensitive issues amid employee discord
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Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Dec 2018Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Dec 2018Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning
- Jan 2019Tensor Considered Harmful Part 2
- Jan 2019Deep Learning State of the Art (2019) [video]
- Mar 2019‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations
- Sep 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Mar 2024Where is Noether's principle in machine learning?
- Mar 2024On the Double-Slit Experiment and Quantum Interference in the Wolfram Model (2020)
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RL$^2$: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017RL²: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning (2016)
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2017Learning to Cooperate, Compete, and Communicate
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
- Feb 2023What were the 40 research papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack?
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Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2016Deepmind Navigates 3D Maze WithAsynchronous Methods 4 Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Feb 2016Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2016Google DeepMind: Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Apr 2016How Far to AI Utopia?
- Apr 2016Visual Doom AI Competition
- Jun 2016Deep Reinforcement Learning Using Keras and OpenAI Gym
- Aug 2016Reinforcement Learning and DQN – learning to play from pixels
- Sep 2016BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Mar 2017Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning
- Dec 2017Is AlphaZero really a breakthrough in AI?
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Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2017Inherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores
- Nov 2016Facebook is harming our democracy
- Nov 2016A machine learning approach to identifying thought markers of suicidal subjects
- Dec 2016Unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
- Apr 2017Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence criminals
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Jun 2018AI at Google: our principles
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Jun 2024Mozilla.ai did what? When silliness goes dangerous
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Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Hacker News threads
- May 2015Deep Unsupervised Learning Using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics [pdf]
- Apr 2022Dall-E 2
- Oct 2022The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
- Jan 2023Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
- Jul 2023Stanford A.I. Courses
- Feb 2024Mamba Explained: The State Space Model Taking On Transformers
- May 2024Diffusion Models
- Sep 2024Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
- Sep 2024Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
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SLIDE : In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning Systems
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2020Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning
- Mar 2019In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Slide: In Defense of Smart Algorithms over Hardware Accelerated Deep Learning
- Mar 2020Deep Learning Breakthrough Sees One Xeon Destroying 8x Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs
- Dec 2020Researchers propose faster, more efficient alternatives to backpropagation
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Apr 2021CPU-based algorithm trains deep neural nets up to 15 times faster than top GPU
- Aug 2021pHash – An open source perceptual hash library (2013)
- Oct 2021New features coming in Julia 1.7
- Feb 2022Two sparsities are better than one: Performance of sparse-sparse networks
- Feb 2025(Ab)using general search algorithms on dynamic optimization problems (2023)
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The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2021The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)
- Feb 2018The Matrix Calculus You Need For Deep Learning
- Jan 2020The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Aug 2018Learning Math for Machine Learning
- Oct 2021Ask HN: As a professional, does it worth it to learn the math behind NN?
- Apr 2023Matrix Calculus: Calculate derivatives of matrices
- Jul 2023The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
- Jan 2024Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation (2015)
- Sep 2024Ask HN: Calculus Refresher for AI/ML?
- Mar 2025Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)
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Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Double Descent: Where Bigger Models and More Data Hurt
- Dec 2019Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
- Jul 2020The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization
- Oct 2021Imitating Deep Learning Dynamics via Stochastic Differential Equations
- Apr 2023Double Descent in Human Learning
- May 2023What are some of the best written papers in AI,ML,DL and its applications?
- Feb 2026I don't think AGI is imminent
- May 2026Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles
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Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2017Visualizing the Loss Landscape of Neural Nets [pdf]
- Feb 2018Greedy, Brittle, Opaque, and Shallow: The Downsides to Deep Learning
- Jan 2019An Idiot’s guide to Support vector machines (2003) [pdf]
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- Feb 2024Training LLMs to generate text with citations via fine-grained rewards
- May 2024Gradient descent visualization
- Jun 2024Grokfast: Accelerated Grokking by Amplifying Slow Gradients
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
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End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016ConvNet-Based “End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars”
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars
- Apr 2016End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars [pdf]
- Jul 2016Master Plan, Part Deux
- Feb 2017The most cited deep learning papers
- May 2017Volta: Advanced Data Center GPU
- Jun 2017Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy
- Sep 2017Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms
- May 2018A self-driving toy car using end-to-end learning
- Jul 2018Ask HN: What makes a good autonomous vehicles engineer?
- Jul 2018Steps Toward Super Intelligence Part I: How We Got Here
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Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN
- Feb 2020This person does not exist
- Nov 2020This X Does Not Exist (2019)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Feb 2021Accounts with GAN Faces Attack Belgium over 5G Restrictions
- Jun 2021Alias-Free GAN
- Jul 2022Show HN: This Food Does Not Exist
- Oct 2024Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
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Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models
- Mar 2023Microsoft lays off an ethical AI team as it doubles down on OpenAI
- Sep 2023
- Apr 2024When Will the GenAI Bubble Burst?
- Jan 2025OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
- Aug 2025Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)
- Sep 2026I resigned from Anthropic today
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Knowledge Representation in Bicategories of Relations
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017A computational linguistic farce in three acts
- Nov 2017Modeling Science as a Directed Graph
- May 2018The Logical Disaster of Null
- Jul 2018Kialo – a platform for rational debate
- Dec 2018A Formal Apology for Metaphysics [pdf]
- Aug 2019Software Architecture Guide
- Feb 2020Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
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Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2024Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Transformer (2019)
- Oct 2019Google T5 scores 88.9 on SuperGLUE Benchmark, approaching human baseline
- Jan 2020Google Research: Looking Back at 2019, and Forward to 2020 and Beyond
- Feb 2020Graph Neural Networks – An Overview
- Feb 2020T5: The Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer
- Dec 2022AlphaCode Attention Visualization
- Jul 2023Free and Fast LLM Finetuning
- Jul 2023What We Know About LLMs (A Primer)
- Feb 2024Gemma: New Open Models
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European Union regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a "right to explanation"
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jun 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “right to explanation”
- Jul 2016Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash with Europe
- Jul 2016Training Computers to Find Future Criminals
- Aug 2016Make Algorithms Accountable
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Sep 2016Approaching fairness in machine learning
- Jun 2017You can probably use deep learning even if you don't have a lot of data
- Jan 2018Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
- Oct 2018How Do Insurance Companies Know My Health History? (2017)
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Universal adversarial perturbations
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Universal adversarial perturbations
- Nov 2016How close are we to solving vision?
- Nov 2016Show HN: Interactive deep convnet visualization for Keras and Tensorflow
- Jan 2017OpenNMT: Open-Source Neural Machine Translation
- Jun 2017Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields
- Jul 2017Robust Adversarial Examples
- Oct 2017AI Model Fundamentally Cracks Captchas, Scientists Say
- Oct 2017One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks
- Nov 2018Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans
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Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2015Deep Speech 2: End-To-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin
- Jul 2016Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
- Nov 2017Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
- Dec 2019DeepSpeech 0.6
- Dec 2019Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus
- May 2023RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- Aug 2023Has Google Translate been fixed yet?
- Dec 2025Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)
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XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
Hacker News threads
- Mar 2016XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
- Apr 2016Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks
- Jul 2016Notes from the fourth RISC-V workshop
- Jan 2017TensorFlow machine learning now optimized for the Snapdragon 835 and Hexagon 682
- Jan 2017XNOR.ai frees AI from the prison of the supercomputer
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Feb 2017Intel Gets Serious About Neuromorphic, Cognitive Computing Future
- Aug 2018Shrinking Machine Learning Models for Offline Use
- Nov 2024SVDQuant: 4-Bit Quantization Powers 12B Flux on a 16GB 4090 GPU with 3x Speedup
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Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2016Building machines that learn and think like people
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Apr 2016Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Aug 2016The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Feb 2017Causality in machine learning
- Apr 2017Ask HN: AI winter coming in next few years for AGI research?
- Apr 2017How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience
- Jul 2017The future of deep learning
- May 2019Automakers Are Rethinking the Timetable for Fully Autonomous Cars
- Jun 2019An Explicitly Relational Neural Network Architecture
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Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10? [pdf]
- Jan 2019Do CIFAR-10 Classifiers Generalize to CIFAR-10?
- Jun 2018Why do CNNs generalize so poorly to small image transformations?
- Jun 2018Building the Software 2.0 Stack by Andrej Karpathy [video]
- Aug 2018Current state of the art in objects classification
- Dec 2018Training ResNet-50 on ImageNet in 35 Epochs Using Second-Order Optimization
- Jun 2020Do We Train on Test Data? Purging Cifar of Near-Duplicates
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
- Jan 2023A Stack of Feed-Forward Layers Does Surprisingly Well on ImageNet
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