Researcher
Léon Bottou

Visiting Scholar at Flatiron Institute
Bottou helped make stochastic gradient descent practical for large-scale machine learning, shaping the optimization methods used to train modern neural networks. He also co-created DjVu, a format for compressing scanned documents.
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Background
Current role
Visiting Scholar 2026-present
Flatiron Institute
Flatiron InstituteBorn1965
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Last editorial review: September 5, 2026Citation Trend
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