Who invented deep residual learning?
Authors: name: Juergen Schmidhuber
Published: 2025-09-29 12:57:35

Abstract: Modern AI is based on deep artificial neural networks (NNs). As of 2025, the
most cited scientific article of the 21st century is an NN paper on deep
residual learning with residual connections. Who invented this? We present a
timeline of the evolution of deep residual learning.