Schmidhuber Claims 1991 Munich Work Predates Transformers, Distillation, GANs
June 19, 2026
Jürgen Schmidhuber reiterates claims that his 1991 Munich lab published precursors to linear Transformers, pre-training, neural net distillation, residual learning, and GAN-based world models — decades before their mainstream adoption. The post is historical attribution commentary tied to his current RSI work at Sakana AI.
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