Researcher
Léon Bottou
Flatiron InstituteVisiting Scholar
🇫🇷 FrenchBorn 1965
Career & education
Flatiron Institute2026-present
Meta
Microsoft
NEC
AT&T
École Polytechnique
ENS ParisWork and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Selected contributions
Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition
Showed how neural networks could learn to read handwritten characters for document processing.
References
- Léon Bottou — Learning with Stochastic Gradient Descentleon.bottou.org
Author research overview documents decades of work on stochastic gradient learning, practical large-scale training, and neural-network optimization, with linked original papers and software.
- DjVu: Scanned Documents on the Webleon.bottou.org
DjVu: Scanned Documents on the Web supports the anchored contribution. Existing stochastic-gradient source and anchor preserved. Author-hosted DjVu design/history and original co-authored publication list verified; existing prose preserved. Unexplained stochastic gradient descent remains 5/10 technical: recommended future wording describes learning from small samples, but references-only request does not authorize flattening contribution.
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