Sepp Hochreiter

Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat.

Full Member of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences since 2026

  • Institutsvorstand Institut für Machine Learning, JKU Linz
  • Institutsvorstand LIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, JKU Linz
  • Institutsvorstand ELLIS Unit Linz

Sepp Hochreiter

Orcid-ID:

0000-0001-7449-2528

Research Areas:

  • Computer Sciences
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

  • ELLIS Sociecy (European Lab for Leaming and lntelligence Systems)
  • Leopoldina (Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften)
  • ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
  • Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft (OCG)

Selected Prizes:

  • 2025: Wilhelm Exner Medaille
  • 2024: INNS Award Hermann von Helmholtz Award
  • 2023: German Kl-Innovation Award of the "Welt"
  • 2022: Austrian Innovation Award
  • 2012: Digitalos (Digital Pioneer Award)

Selected Publications:

  • Hochreiter, S., & Schmidhuber, J. (1997). Long shortterm memory. Neural computation, 9, 1735-1780.
  • Heusel, M., Ramsauer, H., Unterthlner, T., Nessler, B., &Hochreiter, S. (2017). GANs trained by a two time-scale update rule converge to a local Nash equilibrium. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 30.
  • Hochreiter, S. (1998). The vanishing gradient problem during leaming recurrent neural nets and problem solutions. Internat. J. Uncertain. Fuzziness Knowledge- Based Sys-tems, 6, 107-116.
  • Maximilian Beck, Korbinian Pöppel, Markus Spanring, Andreas Auer, Oleksandra Prudnikova, Michael Kopp, Günter Klambauer, Johannes Brandstetter, Sepp Hochreiter: xLSTM: Extended Long Short-Term Memory.
  • Auer, A; Podest, P.; Klotz, D.; Böck, S.; Klambauer, G.; Hochreiter, S. (2025): TiRex: Zero-Shot Forecasting Across Long and Short Horizons with Enhanced In-Context Learning.