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Cho et al. publish Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder

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Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder-Decoder released on arXiv — proposed the GRU

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Brought the encoder-decoder architecture and the GRU to machine translation, laying the groundwork for attention research

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