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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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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1078Added in Week 35, 2026 · See that week
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