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issue 2026-07-07AI Research50 minarXiv 2014explainer

Sequence to Sequence Learning

Encoder–decoder LSTMs map variable-length inputs to outputs end to end.

Encoder–decoder LSTMs map variable-length inputs to outputs end to end.

What this paper explains

Encoder–decoder LSTMs map variable-length inputs to outputs end to end.

What to notice

  • What problem the paper set out to solve, and why earlier approaches stalled there.
  • The key mechanism or formula introduced, in the authors' own terms.
  • Which results held up, and which assumptions later work relaxed.

How to read it

Read the abstract and introduction for the problem setup, then the method section for the core mechanism. Skim experiments for what actually moved.

Sources

  • Authors: Sutskever et al. (2014)