Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerAlex Graves, Greg Wayne, Ivo Danihelka (DeepMind)Google DeepMind
DeepMind publishes Neural Turing Machines on arXiv
Neural Turing Machines released on arXiv — a neural network that reads from and writes to external memory
Why it matters
The idea of handling memory through attention-based addressing. The start of the memory-augmented lineage
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week