Sepp Hochreiter

Sepp Hochreiter

Sepp Hochreiter is Head of the Institute for Machine Learning, the LIT AI Lab, and Director of the ELLIS Unit at Johannes Kepler University Linz. He is also the founder of NXAI, a company driving innovation in deep learning with technologies like xLSTM and the time series foundation model TiRex. Widely recognized as a pioneer of deep learning, Hochreiter is best known for his foundational contributions, including the development of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks and the identification of the vanishing gradient problem. LSTMs laid the groundwork for the first large language models and were instrumental in the evolution of systems like ChatGPT.

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Discovery - From Molecules to Models
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28 September 2026
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