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by finndark 2620 days ago
"ELM" = "Extreme Learning Machine" is apparently heavily based upon previous work, if not outright plagiarism. The Wikipedia article on ELM discusses this only briefly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_learning_machine#Contr...

Yann LeCun' opinion on ELM: 'What's so great about "Extreme Learning Machines"?':

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/34u0go/yan...

A sort-of "How-to plagiarize successfully" guide including "Easy but Proven 5 Steps to Academic Fame" with Huang's work as a gleaming example:

https://elmorigin.wixsite.com/originofelm

Two very detailed plagiarism analyses of two of Huang's papers. They are quite sarcastic, funny and enlightening:

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/5256f1_ac3a0f6b08524a3ca6101d...

And finally, as one poster says, the provenance of "Deep Learning" itself has some controversy:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_Extreme_Learning_machi...

"But, just recently I also found that there is also a problem with the inventorship of Deep Learning. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/deep-learning-conspiracy.htm... For this, I post a question for discussing these issues. https://www.researchgate.net/post/Any_enlightment_on_the_ori... https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/5256f1_556b42c00d0d4d5bb199fb...

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As much as people dislike Schumidhuber for being bit of a curmudgeon, his contributions have been undermined in the Deep Learning community at large. He did not deserve to be shafted for the Turing award.

His contributions were as impressive as the other 3, and a lot of it was done in isolation away from the support of the NA AI/ML community.