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Durk Kingma

@dpkingma

Deep learning, mostly generative models. Prev. @Google Brain/DeepMind, founding team @OpenAI. Inventor of the VAE, Adam optimizer, among other things. ML PhD.

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It was 16 years ago, in 2006, that Geoffrey Hinton et al released their demo of deep belief nets. Undergrad me was highly impressed, and helped convince me that deep learning was the way to go. I refreshed Geoff's website almost every day checking for new papers... (1/n)