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Sepp Hochreiter

German computer scientist who co-invented LSTM and xLSTM

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Sepp Hochreiter is a German computer scientist who, as a student of Jürgen Schmidhuber, identified the vanishing-gradient problem and co-invented long short-term memory networks. He leads the Institute for Machine Learning at Johannes Kepler University Linz and developed the xLSTM architecture.

Biography

Diploma thesis

Hochreiter studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich. His 1991 diploma thesis showed why deep and recurrent networks struggle to learn: error signals shrink or explode as they pass back through layers.

LSTM

With Schmidhuber he designed LSTM (1997), using memory cells and gates to overcome the problem. It became one of the most cited papers of the century.

Bioinformatics

He led the Institute of Bioinformatics at Johannes Kepler University Linz from 2006 and developed methods for genetic data, as well as SELU activation functions.

xLSTM

Since 2018 he has led the Institute for Machine Learning in Linz. In 2024 he introduced xLSTM, an extended LSTM to rival transformers, and co-founded the company NXAI.

Timeline

  1. 1967

    Born in Mühldorf, West Germany

  2. 1991

    Vanishing-gradient thesis

  3. 1997

    LSTM paper

  4. 2006

    Leads bioinformatics institute in Linz

  5. 2017

    Self-normalising networks

  6. 2018

    Leads Institute for Machine Learning

  7. 2024

    xLSTM

Notable works

  • 1997

    Long Short-Term Memory Paper

    With Jürgen Schmidhuber.

  • 2024

    xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory Paper

Awards and honours

  • IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award

    2021

Did you know?

  1. 1

    His thesis was written in German and went largely unnoticed for years.

  2. 2

    LSTM is among the most cited AI papers of the 20th century.

  3. 3

    He works in Austria.

Connections

Also born on 14 February

Frequently asked

Who is Sepp Hochreiter?

Sepp Hochreiter is a German computer scientist who, as a student of Jürgen Schmidhuber, identified the vanishing-gradient problem and co-invented long short-term memory networks. He leads the Institute for Machine Learning at Johannes Kepler University Linz and developed the xLSTM architecture.

How old is Sepp Hochreiter?

Sepp Hochreiter is 59 years old, born on 14 February 1967 in Mühldorf, West Germany.

Where is Sepp Hochreiter from?

Sepp Hochreiter was born in Mühldorf, West Germany.

What is Sepp Hochreiter known for?

Sepp Hochreiter is best known for Vanishing-gradient analysis (1991); LSTM (1997); xLSTM; NXAI.

What awards has Sepp Hochreiter received?

Notable honours include IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award (2021).

References

  1. Sepp Hochreiter — Wikipedia. Wikipedia. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
  2. Official website. www.jku.at. Retrieved 4 November 2026.
  3. Sepp Hochreiter (Q7451965) — structured data. Wikidata. Retrieved 4 November 2026.

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