Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerBarret Zoph, Quoc V. Le (Google Brain)Quoc V. LeGoogle
Google Brain publishes Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning released on arXiv
Why it matters
The paper that turned architecture design itself into a search problem
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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01578Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week