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Léon Bottou

Léon Bottou portrait

Visiting Scholar at Flatiron Institute

🇫🇷 French

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
Previously
2015-Feb 2026
2010-2015
2002-2010
1995-2002
Born1965
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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, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26210,754198,773186,792Aug 25, '25Apr 15, '26Jun 15, '26Sep 1, '26
210,754citations as of Sep 1, '26+2,035 since Aug 1, '26
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