2011, in 3 pieces

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December 1

Quoc V. Le, Jeff Dean, Andrew Y. Ng et al. (Google Brain)
Building high-level features using large scale unsupervised learning

Showed that high-level concepts emerge from nothing more than large-scale unlabeled data and large-scale compute. A symbol of Google's investment in deep learning

August 1

Dan Ciresan et al. (IDSIA)
Multi-column deep neural network beats humans with 99.46% at IJCNN 2011 GTSRB

An officially recognized benchmark record of a neural network surpassing humans on a specific visual recognition task

January 1

Hervé Jégou et al. (INRIA)
Jégou et al. publish Product Quantization for Nearest Neighbor Search

The origin point of the IVF-PQ family. The compressed indexes of FAISS, ScaNN and most vector DBs descend directly from this paper