Who invented deep residual learning?
arXiv:2509.24732
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.
12 pages, 2 illustrations, circa 100 partially annotated references