James Bergstra

22.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
25 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

James Bergstra is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, James Bergstra has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 6 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in James Bergstra's work include Machine Learning and Data Classification (8 papers), Music and Audio Processing (6 papers) and Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (5 papers). James Bergstra is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning and Data Classification (8 papers), Music and Audio Processing (6 papers) and Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (5 papers). James Bergstra collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. James Bergstra's co-authors include Yoshua Bengio, David Cox, Daniel Yamins, Dan Yamins, Chris Eliasmith, Brent Komer, Aaron Courville, Dumitru Erhan, Hugo Larochelle and Guillaume Desjardins and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Neural Computation and Machine Learning.

In The Last Decade

James Bergstra

25 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
James Bergstra 4.2k 2.1k 1.2k 902 589 25 10.1k
Tin Kam Ho 4.6k 1.1× 2.4k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 529 0.9× 78 11.2k
Onur Teymur 4.7k 1.1× 2.9k 1.4× 680 0.6× 555 0.6× 642 1.1× 7 11.3k
Paolo Frasconi 4.2k 1.0× 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 493 0.8× 130 10.0k
Ben Calderhead 5.2k 1.3× 3.0k 1.4× 693 0.6× 573 0.6× 688 1.2× 23 12.5k
Kevin P. Murphy 3.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 898 0.8× 982 1.1× 403 0.7× 38 10.1k
Jianchang Mao 3.7k 0.9× 3.2k 1.5× 809 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 325 0.6× 43 9.9k
Michel Verleysen 4.1k 1.0× 2.5k 1.2× 649 0.6× 1.0k 1.1× 413 0.7× 287 8.7k
Ah Chung Tsoi 5.1k 1.2× 2.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 570 1.0× 184 11.0k
Javier Del Ser 6.6k 1.6× 2.1k 1.0× 1.6k 1.4× 632 0.7× 845 1.4× 314 14.9k
P. M. Durai Raj Vincent 4.0k 1.0× 2.7k 1.3× 646 0.6× 914 1.0× 264 0.4× 92 10.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Bergstra

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Bergstra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Bergstra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Bergstra based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James Bergstra. James Bergstra is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Korenkevych, Dmytro, et al.. (2018). Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Algorithms on Real-World Robots. arXiv (Cornell University). 561–591. 19 indexed citations
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Bergstra, James, Nicolas Pinto, & David Cox. (2015). SkData: data sets and algorithm evaluation protocols in Python. 8(1). 14007–14007. 1 indexed citations
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Bergstra, James, Brent Komer, Chris Eliasmith, Dan Yamins, & David Cox. (2015). Hyperopt: a Python library for model selection and hyperparameter optimization. 8(1). 14008–14008. 636 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bekolay, Trevor, James Bergstra, Eric Hunsberger, et al.. (2014). Nengo: a Python tool for building large-scale functional brain models. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 7. 48–48. 292 indexed citations
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Terrel, Andy R., et al.. (2014). Preface. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Komer, Brent, James Bergstra, & Chris Eliasmith. (2014). Hyperopt-Sklearn: Automatic Hyperparameter Configuration for Scikit-Learn. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 32–37. 187 indexed citations
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Hunsberger, Eric, Peter Blouw, James Bergstra, & Chris Eliasmith. (2013). A Neural Model of Human Image Categorization. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2 indexed citations
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Bergstra, James, Daniel Yamins, & David Cox. (2013). Making a Science of Model Search: Hyperparameter Optimization in Hundreds of Dimensions for Vision Architectures. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 115–123. 935 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bergstra, James, Dan Yamins, & David Cox. (2013). Hyperopt: A Python Library for Optimizing the Hyperparameters of Machine Learning Algorithms. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 13–19. 485 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bergstra, James, Nicolas Pinto, & D. J. Cox. (2013). SkData: Data Sets and Algorithm Evaluation Protocols in Python. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 20–26. 73 indexed citations
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Bergstra, James, Nicolas Pinto, & David Cox. (2012). Machine learning for predictive auto-tuning with boosted regression trees. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 1–9. 41 indexed citations
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Courville, Aaron, James Bergstra, & Yoshua Bengio. (2011). A Spike and Slab Restricted Boltzmann Machine. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 233–241. 41 indexed citations
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Bengio, Yoshua, Aaron Courville, & James Bergstra. (2011). Unsupervised Models of Images by Spike-and-Slab RBMs. International Conference on Machine Learning. 1145–1152. 38 indexed citations
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Mesnil, Grégoire, Yann Dauphin, Xavier Glorot, et al.. (2011). Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge: a Deep Learning Approach. International Conference on Machine Learning. 97–110. 90 indexed citations
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Bergstra, James, Olivier Breuleux, Frédéric Bastien, et al.. (2010). Theano: A CPU and GPU Math Compiler in Python. Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences. 18–24. 686 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bergstra, James, Michael Mandel, & Douglas Eck. (2010). Scalable Genre And Tag Prediction With Spectral Covariance.. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 507–512. 13 indexed citations
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Bengio, Yoshua & James Bergstra. (2009). Slow, Decorrelated Features for Pretraining Complex Cell-like Networks. Neural Information Processing Systems. 22. 99–107. 31 indexed citations
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Turian, Joseph, James Bergstra, & Yoshua Bengio. (2009). Quadratic features and deep architectures for chunking. 245–245. 35 indexed citations
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Larochelle, Hugo, Dumitru Erhan, Aaron Courville, James Bergstra, & Yoshua Bengio. (2007). An empirical evaluation of deep architectures on problems with many factors of variation. 473–480. 665 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bergstra, James, Norman Casagrande, Dumitru Erhan, Douglas Eck, & Balázs Kégl. (2006). Aggregate features and ADABOOST for music classification. Machine Learning. 65(2-3). 473–484. 183 indexed citations

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