5 Groundbreaking Papers That Are Testimony To Yann Lecun's Ingenuity

Deep Learning has benefited primarily and continues to do so thanks to the pioneering works of Geoff Hinton, Yann Lecun and Yoshua Bengio in the late 1980s. Contributions of Yann Lecun, especially in developing convolutional neural networks and their applications in computer vision and other areas of artificial intelligence form the basis of many products and services deployed across most technology companies today. Here are a few of Yann's groundbreaking research papers that have contributed greatly to this field: The ability of neural networks to generalize can be greatly enhanced by providing constraints from the task domain. As a follow up to his widely popular work on back-prop, in this paper, Yann and his peers demonstrate how such constraints can be integrated into a backpropagation network through the architecture of the network. This approach has been successfully applied to the recognition of handwritten zip code digits provided by the US Postal Service.