Léon Bottou

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Léon Bottou is a French computer scientist known for his influential work in machine learning and neural networks, including key contributions to the development of the LeNet convolutional network.

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instanceOf computer scientist
person
researcher
citizenship France
coauthorWith Frank Pereira
Jason Weston
Olivier Bousquet
Patrick Haffner
Yann LeCun
Yoshua Bengio
educatedAt Université Paris-Sud NERFINISHED
École Polytechnique NERFINISHED
employer Facebook AI Research
Meta Platforms
familyName Bottou
fieldOfWork large-scale learning
machine learning
neural networks
optimization
statistical learning
stochastic gradient descent
givenName Léon
hasAcademicAdvisor Vladimir Vapnik
hasAward ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award
hasPublication “Counterfactual Reasoning and Learning Systems”
“From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning”
“Large-Scale Machine Learning with Stochastic Gradient Descent”
“Stochastic Gradient Descent Tricks”
“The Tradeoffs of Large Scale Learning”
knownFor contributions to LeNet convolutional network
online learning algorithms
stochastic gradient descent methods
theory and practice of large-scale machine learning
language English
French
memberOf Facebook AI Research group
name Léon Bottou
nationality French
notableWork LeNet-5 convolutional neural network (with Yann LeCun and others)
researchInterest convex optimization
non-convex optimization
scalable learning algorithms
theoretical foundations of machine learning
workInstitution AT&T Bell Labs
Facebook AI Research
Microsoft Research
NEC Labs America
NEC Research Institute

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