Architecture
Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition
AT&T Labs·November 1, 1998
Yann LeCun, Léon Bottou, Yoshua Bengio
TL;DR
Presents LeNet-5, a convolutional neural network that reads handwritten digits, establishing the modern CNN.
Why it matters
The blueprint for convolutional networks that, 14 years later, would ignite the deep-learning revolution.