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citation-history

19 notes carry this tag — 8 claims, 9 captures, 1 myth, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the fifth time is not an accident
  essay draft 2026-07-08 · linnainmaa, speelpenning, werbos, backpropagation, reverse-mode-ad

Everything else

• What genuinely connects Werbos's two missing-document claims and the DOCSUB/RHW-thesis document-identity claim? The same 1993 sitting, with one leg independently corroborated
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-19 · werbos, docsub, darpa, backpropagation, oral-history
• What genuinely connects the RHW 1986 four-reference list and Werbos's DOCSUB block? Chronology and document identity say: nothing causal
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-17 · werbos, rumelhart, backpropagation, citation-history, docsub
• Werbos's DOCSUB episode entered the public record 7–12 years after RHW's 1986 Nature paper, foreclosing a causal reading
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-17 · werbos, rumelhart, backpropagation, citation-history, docsub
• Werbos's own explanation for his early non-recognition is publishing strategy, not DARPA suppression — and Kanal's independent testimony agrees
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-17 · werbos, kanal, obscurity, citation-history, backpropagation
• The DARPA report blocked from DOCSUB and the 1974 Harvard thesis RHW failed to cite are two different Werbos documents
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-17 · werbos, docsub, darpa, backpropagation, citation-history
• Capture: Speelpenning's 1980 thesis bibliography (leaf 74) does not cite Linnainmaa — full-text PDF retrieved from OSTI.gov
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-07 · speelpenning, linnainmaa, automatic-differentiation, reverse-mode, backpropagation
• Year-by-year citation counts for Linnainmaa 1976 (DOI 10.1007/BF01931367) — Semantic Scholar histogram, cross-checked against Google Scholar
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-07 · linnainmaa, backpropagation, automatic-differentiation, citation-history, citation-analysis
• Linnainmaa 1976's citation record, finally pulled — 51 dated citations across 1978–2009, then 245 in the sixteen years since 2010
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · linnainmaa, citation-history, bibliometrics, backpropagation, myth-ledger
• The machine-learning and automatic-differentiation communities were mutually unaware until "very recently" — the structural cause of the backprop attribution gap
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · automatic-differentiation, backpropagation, citation-history, history-of-ml, linnainmaa
• Speelpenning's 1980 thesis — the canonical early reverse-mode implementation — does not cite Linnainmaa; its lineage is the U.S. compiler line, not the Finnish numerical-analysis line
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-07 · speelpenning, linnainmaa, automatic-differentiation, reverse-mode, citation-history
• David Parker's 1985 backprop rediscovery was an internal MIT technical report (TR-47), credited by RHW 1986 only as "personal communication" with no reference entry
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · parker, backpropagation, technical-report, citation-history, rumelhart
• The 1986 backpropagation Nature paper cites only four references — none of the earlier independent derivations
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-06 · rumelhart, hinton, williams, backpropagation, citation-history
• Myth ledger: 'Linnainmaa's thesis was basically never cited before the 2010s'
  note budding 2026-07-06 · myth, linnainmaa, citation-history, history-of-ml, bibliometrics
• Capture: What Griewank 2012 says about Linnainmaa's priority in autodiff, and how that work was received before the 2010s
  capture promoted 2026-07-01 · automatic-differentiation, linnainmaa, griewank, backpropagation, reverse-mode
• Does Schmidhuber arXiv:2005.05744 corroborate or challenge the claim that Linnainmaa went uncited before the 2010s?
  capture promoted 2026-07-01 · backpropagation, linnainmaa, schmidhuber, citation-history, automatic-differentiation
• Capture: Was Speelpenning (1980) the first autodiff implementation paper to cite Linnainmaa?
  capture promoted 2026-07-01 · automatic-differentiation, linnainmaa, speelpenning, backpropagation, reverse-mode
• Does Baydin et al. (2018) JMLR survey explicitly discuss Linnainmaa's citation history?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-01 · automatic-differentiation, backpropagation, linnainmaa, citation-history, historiography-of-ml
• Citation data for Linnainmaa 1970/1976: verifying the 'essentially uncited before the 2010s' claim
  capture promoted 2026-06-28 · backpropagation, automatic-differentiation, Linnainmaa, citation-history, history-of-AI