J. Rissanen

22.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
119 papers, 13.5k citations indexed

About

J. Rissanen is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Rissanen has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 13.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 44 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 20 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in J. Rissanen's work include Algorithms and Data Compression (46 papers), Machine Learning and Algorithms (17 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (15 papers). J. Rissanen is often cited by papers focused on Algorithms and Data Compression (46 papers), Machine Learning and Algorithms (17 papers) and Fault Detection and Control Systems (15 papers). J. Rissanen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Finland and United Kingdom. J. Rissanen's co-authors include Glen G. Langdon, Bin Yu, Andrew R. Barron, E. J. Hannan, M.J. Weinberger, Meir Feder, R. Arps, Peter E. Caines, Manish Mehta and Rakesh Agrawal and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

In The Last Decade

J. Rissanen

111 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

Modeling by shortest data description 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 1983 1998 1998 1984 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Modeling by shortest data description
    1978 3.8k citations J. Rissanen Automatica profile →
  2. A Universal Prior for Integers and Estimation by Minimum Description Length
    1983 1.0k citations J. Rissanen profile →
  3. Stochastic Complexity in Statistical Inquiry
    1998 897 citations J. Rissanen profile →
  4. The minimum description length principle in coding and modeling
    1998 657 citations Andrew R. Barron, J. Rissanen et al. profile →
  5. Universal coding, information, prediction, and estimation
    1984 612 citations J. Rissanen profile →
  6. Stochastic Complexity and Modeling
    1986 586 citations J. Rissanen profile →
  7. Fisher information and stochastic complexity
    1996 536 citations J. Rissanen profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
J. Rissanen United States 40 7.2k 3.0k 2.8k 1.9k 1.4k 119 13.5k
Andrew Moore United States 44 8.6k 1.2× 2.8k 0.9× 1.4k 0.5× 1.5k 0.8× 2.1k 1.5× 159 16.4k
Radford M. Neal Canada 31 8.3k 1.2× 3.5k 1.2× 1.9k 0.7× 970 0.5× 3.7k 2.6× 55 19.8k
John Langford United States 37 7.2k 1.0× 6.0k 2.0× 1.8k 0.6× 894 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 115 15.1k
Nando de Freitas Canada 32 7.5k 1.1× 2.7k 0.9× 1.0k 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 1.4k 1.0× 102 15.2k
Sankar K. Pal India 58 6.9k 1.0× 5.9k 2.0× 1.1k 0.4× 3.3k 1.7× 614 0.4× 332 16.5k
Шун-ичи Амари Japan 69 9.8k 1.4× 3.5k 1.2× 8.6k 3.1× 1.1k 0.6× 1.8k 1.3× 314 24.6k
James M. Keller United States 47 5.6k 0.8× 4.8k 1.6× 1.4k 0.5× 1.0k 0.5× 637 0.4× 464 13.1k
Alexander J. Smola United States 42 11.8k 1.6× 8.8k 2.9× 2.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 100 25.2k
Luc Devroye Canada 43 5.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 1.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 778 0.5× 272 12.0k
Alan S. Willsky United States 68 5.6k 0.8× 5.9k 2.0× 3.0k 1.1× 1.0k 0.5× 2.6k 1.8× 459 20.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. Rissanen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rissanen, J.. (2008). Minimum description length. Scholarpedia. 3(8). 6727–6727. 2 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J., et al.. (2005). Lossless Data Compression Using Optimal Tree Machines. 348–357. 7 indexed citations
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Ojanen, Janne, Timo Miettinen, Jukka Heikkonen, & J. Rissanen. (2004). Robust denoising of electrophoresis and mass spectrometry signals with minimum description length principle. FEBS Letters. 570(1-3). 107–113. 9 indexed citations
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Kontkanen, Petri, Wray Buntine, Petri Myllymäki, J. Rissanen, & Kirsi Tirri. (2003). Efficient Computing of Stochastic Complexity.. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 171–178. 14 indexed citations
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Barron, Andrew R., J. Rissanen, & Bin Yu. (2000). The minimum description length principle in coding and modeling (invited paper). IEEE Press eBooks. 699–716. 1 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J., et al.. (2000). Mdl Based Digital Signal Segmentation. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1999). Hypothesis Selection and Testing by the MDL Principle. The Computer Journal. 42(4). 260–269. 87 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1997). Stochastic Complexity in Learning. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 55(1). 89–95. 27 indexed citations
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Mehta, Manish, J. Rissanen, & Rakesh Agrawal. (1995). MDL-based decision tree pruning. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. 216–221. 112 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1989). Stochastic Complexity in Statistical Inquiry Theory. 65 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1987). Stochastic complexity and the mdl principle. Econometric Reviews. 6(1). 85–102. 69 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1986). Order estimation by accumulated prediction errors. Journal of Applied Probability. 23(A). 55–61. 64 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1978). Modeling by shortest data description. Automatica. 14(5). 465–471. 3807 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rissanen, J.. (1976). Parameter estimation by shortest description of data. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 13(13). 593–597. 5 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J. & Lennart Ljung. (1975). On Canonical Forms, Parameter Identifiability and the Concept of Complexity. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 7083. 58–69. 19 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1973). Algorithms for triangular decomposition of block Hankel and Toeplitz matrices with application to factoring positive matrix polynomials. Mathematics of Computation. 27(121). 147–154. 146 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J.. (1971). On optimum root-finding algorithms. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 36(1). 220–225. 9 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J. & Luciano Barbosa. (1969). Properties of infinite covariance matrices and stability of optimum predictors. Information Sciences. 1(3). 221–236. 53 indexed citations
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Rissanen, J., et al.. (1968). Regulation of Incompletely Identified Linear Systems. SIAM Journal on Control. 6(3). 327–348. 4 indexed citations
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McClamroch, N. Harris & J. Rissanen. (1967). A result on the performance deterioration of optimum systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 12(2). 209–210. 7 indexed citations

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