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Léon Bottou
NEC Laboratories America
4 Independence Way, Suite 200
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Email: myfirstname@bottou.org
Phone: 609-951-2732
I am a research scientist with NEC Labs America's Machine Learning group in Princeton. Although my main main interest is practical and theoretical machine learning, my best known work is probably the DjVu document compression system.
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News
SGDQN
The SGDQN paper has been published on the JMLR site. This variant of stochastic gradient got very good results during the first PASCAL Large Scale Learning Challenge. The paper gives a lot of explanation on the design of the algorithm. Source code is available from Antoine's web site.
ICML 2009
ICML 2009 took place in June.
Michael Littman and I were the program co-chairs.
Since we were expecting a lot of work, we tried to make it interesting
by experimenting with a number of changes in the review process.
Read more for a little explanation and a few conclusions…
OLaRank Implementation Released
Antoine Bordes provides an implementation of the OLaRank algorithm.
OLaRank is an online solver of the dual formulation of support vector machines for structured output spaces. The algorithm can use exact or greedy inference. Its running time scales linearly with the data size, competitive with a perceptron based on the same inference procedure. Its accuracy however is much better as it replicates the accuracy of a structured SVM. See the ECML/PKDD paper "Sequence Labelling SVMs Trained in One Pass" for details.
