Hacker Papers
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Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
Hacker News threads
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
- Sep 2015Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself International Master Level Chess in 72 HRs
- Sep 2015In just 72 hours a deep learning engine has learned chess to Master level
- Mar 2016Spawkfish: Neural network chess
- Oct 2017AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
- Nov 2017Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works
- Nov 2017AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
- Dec 2017Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning
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Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2015Unsupervised Rep. Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Advers. Nets
- Jul 2026Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional GANs
- Dec 2015Ask HN: Papers you read in 2015?
- Mar 2016Yann LeCun's comment on AlphaGo and true AI
- Mar 2016Tensorflow Implementation of Deep Visual Analogy-Making
- Apr 2016Technologists have produced a 3D-printed painting in the style of Rembrandt
- Jun 2016Blade Runner re-encoded using neural networks
- Jun 2016Generative Models
- Jul 2017When not to use deep learning
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Google's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Zero shot translation learning
- Nov 2016Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
- Feb 2017Google's Zero-Shot Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System
- Nov 2016Peeking into the architecture used for Google's Neural Machine Translation
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Jan 2017Why Deep Learning Cannot Be Applied to Natural Languages Easily
- Mar 2017Basque and Georgian – are they related? (2015)
- Jul 2017Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language
- Feb 2018The Shallowness of Google Translate
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Learning to reinforcement learn
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016Learning to reinforcement learn
- Dec 2016OpenAI Universe
- Dec 2016Major advancements in Deep Learning in 2016
- Dec 2016Tool AIs want to be agent AIs
- Jan 2017Learning to Learn in TensorFlow
- Feb 2017Beating the World’s Best at Super Smash Bros. with Deep Reinforcement Learning
- Jun 2018Deep learning: a critical appraisal
- Mar 2019Gödel Machine
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Automatic chemical design using a data-driven continuous representation of molecules
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2016Automatic chemical design using deep neural networks
- Oct 2016Deep learning can debug biology
- Oct 2016Keras-based molecular autoencoder
- Oct 2016Keras-based molecular autoencoder
- Jan 2017Applying deep adversarial autoencoders for new molecule development in oncology
- Jun 2021Chemical space is really big (2014)
- Jul 2024Computational Life: How self-replicating programs emerge from simple interaction
- Nov 2025Parsing Chemistry
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Deep Learning with Limited Numerical Precision
Hacker News threads
- May 2018Deep Learning with Limited Numerical Precision
- May 2015Fast Approximate Logarithms, Part I: The Basics
- Sep 2015Why Are Eight Bits Enough for Deep Neural Networks?
- Nov 2015TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence
- Feb 2017The rise of AI is creating new variety in the chip market, and trouble for Intel
- Apr 2017An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture
- Apr 2017An In-Depth Look at Google's Tensor Processing Unit Architecture
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Universal Transformers
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2018A Google Brain engineer’s guide to entering AI
- Sep 2019Attention Mechanism in Deep Learning
- Aug 2025The Drivers of HRM's Performance on Arc-AGI
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Oct 2025Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
- Dec 2025Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2)
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Are Transformers universal approximators of sequence-to-sequence functions?
Hacker News threads
- May 2023Ask HN: Why can GPT4 en/decode base64?
- Mar 2024OpenAI – transformer debugger release
- Nov 2025The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
- Feb 2026The Problem with LLMs
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
- Jun 2026ChatGPT Spontaneously Generates Sexual Violence and Hardcore Snuff Imagery
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YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2020YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
- Dec 2016YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger
- Jun 2017Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API
- Jul 2017CVPR 2017 Best Paper Awards
- Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Nov 2017Using CNNs for Handbag Brand and Color Detection
- Nov 2017An intuitive explanation of the SSD MultiBox object detection technique
- Mar 2020The End of Starsky Robotics
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On Large-Batch Training for Deep Learning: Generalization Gap and Sharp Minima
Hacker News threads
- Nov 2016MXNet – Deep Learning Framework of Choice at AWS
- Mar 2017Why is so much memory needed for deep neural networks?
- Jun 2017Facebook Trains ImageNet in 1 Hour
- Dec 2017An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)
- Dec 2017Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
- Nov 2025Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
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Polynomial Regression As an Alternative to Neural Nets
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Jun 2018Polynomial Regression as an Alternative to Neural Nets
- Sep 2019NNs are in fact essentially polynomial regression models
- Aug 2019Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression
- Aug 2020Differentiable Control Problems
- Oct 2020Why deep learning works even though it shouldn’t
- May 2021Complexity is a source of income in open source ecosystems (2019)
- May 2026A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
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Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification [pdf]
- Feb 2015Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
- Feb 2015Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training [pdf]
- Dec 2015Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition
- Oct 2016All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware
- May 2020Explainable Deep Learning: A Field Guide for the Uninitiated
- Dec 2023Direct initialization of transformers using larger pretrained ones
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Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
Hacker News threads
- Feb 2015Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention [pdf]
- Oct 2015Neural Artistic Captions
- Mar 2016AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
- Oct 2016Deepgram – Find Damning Soundbites
- Feb 2017Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization
- Feb 2018Asking the Right Questions About AI
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One Model To Learn Them All
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2017One Model to Learn Them All
- Oct 2024One Model to Learn Them All
- Jul 2017One Model to Learn Them All
- Jun 2017Google advances AI with ‘one model to learn them all’
- Jul 2017The future of deep learning
- Nov 2017Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design
- Feb 2018The Shallowness of Google Translate
- Mar 2019Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award
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Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Dec 2019Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics – NN that can do advanced math [Facebook]
- Jan 2020Deep Learning for Symbolic Mathematics
- Mar 2020Differential Equations with Transformers: Deep Learning for Symbolic Math
- May 2020Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
- May 2020Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks
- Aug 2020Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well
- May 2022Learning to think critically about machine learning
- Mar 2023The Age of AI has begun
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Wasserstein GAN
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017Wasserstein GAN
- Feb 2017Wasserstein GAN
- May 2017Sorting Two Tons of Lego, the Software Side
- Aug 2017Do I really have to cite an arXiv paper?
- Apr 2018Building a Content-Based Search Engine IV: Earth Mover's Distance
- Dec 2018Machine learning is not just glorified statistics
- Apr 2019Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks
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Variational Inference: A Review for Statisticians
Hacker News threads
- 93
Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition
Hacker News threads
- Jul 2017Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition
- Sep 2017Machine learning optimization of machine learning architecture
- Jul 2017Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition
- Aug 2017YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection
- Sep 2017Where will artificial general intelligence come from?
- Nov 2017Building A.I. That Can Build A.I
- Jul 2018Darts: Differentiable architecture search for convolutional, recurrent networks
- Oct 2018Introducing AdaNet: Fast and Flexible AutoML with Learning Guarantees
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Backprop as Functor: A compositional perspective on supervised learning
Hacker News threads
- Dec 2018Backprop as Functor: A compositional perspective on supervised learning [pdf]
- Feb 2018NLP concepts with spaCy tutorial
- Mar 2018Applied Category Theory
- Apr 2019Applied Category Theory
- Sep 2019The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clojure and Haskell
- Apr 2021Predictive coding has been unified with backpropagation
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Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
Hacker News threads
- 96
Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016DeepArt.io introduces style transfer for videos
- Jul 2016Prisma: neural-style instagram filters
- Mar 2017Deep Learning enables hearing aid wearers to pick out a voice in a crowded room
- Jul 2017Prisma’s next AI project is a fun selfie sticker maker called Sticky
- Oct 2017Show HN: Paint yourself in the style of classic art, in your browser
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Equality of Opportunity in Supervised Learning
Hacker News threads
- Jan 2017U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
- Jun 2018Harvard discrimination lawsuit: data show penalization of Asian-Americans
- Sep 2018Making a racist AI without really trying (2017)
- Dec 2020Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?
- Aug 2021Moving beyond “algorithmic bias is a data problem”
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Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?
Hacker News threads
- Apr 2019Ask HN: Dataset Cleaning Tips
- Sep 2019AI competitions don’t produce useful models
- Feb 2021DeepMind achieves SOTA image recognition with 8.7x faster training
- Apr 2021Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019)
- Dec 2021A cartel of influential datasets are dominating machine learning research
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Generalization in Deep Learning
Hacker News threads
- Oct 2017Generalization in Deep Learning [pdf]
- Oct 2017RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks
- Nov 2017Software 2.0
- Dec 2017Mathematics of Deep Learning [pdf]
- Apr 2021Are deep neural networks dramatically overfitted? (2019)
- Jun 2021GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
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The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
Hacker News threads
- Jun 2016The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Jun 2020Using machine learning to classify story arcs into six basic shapes
- Mar 2018The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes
- Aug 2016Text Summarization with TensorFlow
- Oct 2018Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types
- Jan 2019At the Blackboard: Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)
- Aug 2020The basic dramatic situations, according to 1919 manual for screenwriters
- Nov 2023Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots
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