Deep learning· 2015
Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification
DOI 10.1109/iccv.2015.123arXiv 1502.01852OpenAlex W1677182931
On the reading lists
- #26 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #5 in Deep learning (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Introduced He initialization and PReLU, enabling reliable training of very deep rectifier networks.
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The record
- First released
- 2015 (from arXiv 1502.01852)
- Citations
- 21,102 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Awards
- ICCV Helmholtz Prize
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.755 · computed rank 26 · consensus 0.68, must-read 0.5, citations percentile 0.86 (2010s · deep-learning), awards 1, existing lists 0.5. Method
Data sources
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