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PaperLeCun et al. · Bell Labs

LeNet: reading handwritten digits with a CNN

Trained a convolutional neural network with backpropagation to read handwritten zip codes.

Why it matters

The first convolutional network used on a real problem; banks in the US later used it to read checks.

Built on

NeocognitronBackprop

Led to

AlexNet

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