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ESIEE Paris
Aaron CourvilleFull Professor · Université de MontréalResearcher↗3 shared research fields
Both at Université de Montréal
Researcher · Academic
Pascal Vincent
Université de MontréalProfessor
Vincent introduced denoising autoencoders, which learn useful patterns by reconstructing clean data from damaged examples. The idea became influential in teaching AI to form useful internal representations and helped inspire later image generators that learn by removing noise.
Career & education
Current roleUniversité de Montréal2006-presentProfessor
Université de Montréal2006-presentPreviously
Meta2017-2025Researcher, FAIR
Meta2017-2025Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations88,597As of Jul 1, '26
citations+545Since last snapshot, Jun 15, '26
Selected contributions
A Neural Probabilistic Language Model
Learned relationships between words with a neural network to better predict the next word.
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