NIPS is the premier conference on Deep Learning. Given the accelerating state of the art, it’s interesting to see what is new. The paper list is available from http://www.dlworkshop.org/accepted-papers. These are the papers that stood out to me (or at least matched my interests). cuDNN: Efficient Primitives for Deep Learning: A library from nVidia for deep learning on GPUs. ~36% speedup on tra