Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerIan Goodfellow et al. (Université de Montréal)Jun 10, 2014

Goodfellow et al. publish Generative Adversarial Networks on arXiv

Generative Adversarial Networks released on arXiv

Why it matters

Proposed an architecture that uses the competition between a generator and a discriminator as the learning signal, opening up one pillar of generative modeling

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661

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