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Which three researchers are often credited with the 1986 seminal paper on the backpropagation algorithm?

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Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams

While the chain rule and automatic differentiation existed earlier, their 1986 paper showed that backpropagation could learn internal representations. This work revived interest in neural networks during the first 'AI winter'.

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