Schmidhuber publishes paper challenging who invented deep residual learning

SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-10-15

• Jürgen Schmidhuber released a new arXiv paper, "Who invented deep residual learning?" (arXiv:2509.24732, 12 pages, 100 annotated references).
• The paper disputes the credit commonly given to the ResNet authors for deep residual learning, in line with Schmidhuber's long history of priority disputes.
• Andrew Zhao called it "paper of the day," and the post drew attention from figures like Sepp Hochreiter.

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