Léon Bottou
Léon Bottou | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 59–60) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique École Normale Supérieure Université Paris-Sud |
| Known for | DjVu |
| Awards | Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Machine learning |
| Institutions | Facebook Research |
| Thesis | Une Approche théorique de l'Apprentissage Connexionniste: Applications à la Reconnaissance de la Parole (1991) |
Léon-Yves Bottou (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ bɔtu]; born 1965) is a researcher best known for his work in machine learning and data compression. His work presents stochastic gradient descent as a fundamental learning algorithm. He is also one of the main creators of the DjVu image compression technology (together with Yann LeCun and Patrick Haffner), and the maintainer of DjVuLibre, the open source implementation of DjVu. He is the original developer of the Lush programming language.