- Professor, Johannes Kepler University Linz1
- Co-founder, NXAI2
Sepp Hochreiter co-invented long short-term memory (LSTM) networks with Jürgen Schmidhuber (1997), a foundational sequence model preceding the transformer era. He is a professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz and co-founded NXAI to advance modern efficient sequence architectures.12
At a glance
- Current roles
- Professor +1 more
- Companies
- Johannes Kepler University Linz, NXAI
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 2
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
LSTM and academic work
The 1997 Neural Computation paper Long Short-Term Memory by Hochreiter and Schmidhuber introduced LSTMs. Hochreiter continues academic work at JKU Linz and entrepreneurial work via NXAI.12
Work and contributions
Timeline
- LSTM paper published in Neural Computation.1
Where they work
- Johannes Kepler University Linz 1 person in the wiki
- NXAI 1 person in the wiki
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