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Around 10 years ago, a paper came out that arguably killed classical deep learning theory: Zhang et al.'s aptly titled Understanding deep learning re…

x The paper that killed deep learning theory — LessWrong Academic Papers History & Philosophy of Science Postmortems & Retrospectives AI Frontpage 2026 Top Fifty: 16 % 193 The paper that killed deep learning theory by LawrenceC 26th Apr 2026 AI Alignment Forum 7 min read 10 193 Ω 68 Around 10 years ago, a paper came out that arguably killed classical deep learning theory: Zhang et al.'s aptly titled Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization . Of course, this is a bit of an exaggeration. No single paper ever kills a field of research on its own, and deep learning theory was

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