Who invented deep residual learning?

Juergen Schmidhuber

Who invented deep residual learning?: 5 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #42 of 61 papers on 2025-10-01. Day-by-day upvote history.

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.

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