Y-Lan Boureau

7.1k citations

23 papers · 3.9k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 18

Impact in

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition top 0.5%
- Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
- Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
- Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Face and Expression Recognition
Artificial Intelligence top 0.5%
- Topic Modeling
- Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Natural Language Processing Techniques

Papers in

General Decision Sciences 1
Artificial Intelligence 14
- Topic Modeling 11
- Speech and dialogue systems 6
- AI in Service Interactions 4
- Natural Language Processing Techniques 4
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection 3

Co-authors: Yann LeCun Jean Ponce Marc’Aurelio Ranzato Y. Le Cun Francis Bach Fu Jie Huang Peter Dayan Karol Gregor
Journals: Trends in Cognitive Sciences (1 paper)Computer Speech & Language (1 paper)Journal of Medical Internet Research (1 paper)Neuropsychopharmacology (1 paper)Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Israel France

In The Last Decade

Y-Lan Boureau

23 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Learning Convolutional Feature Hierarchies for Visual Recognition 2010 · 328 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 Neural Information Processing Systems
2010 Learning mid-level features for recognition
2010 A Theoretical Analysis of Feature Pooling in Visual Recognition
2007 Neural Information Processing Systems
2007 Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Feature Hierarchies with Applications to Object Recognition

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	An Automated Conversational Agent Self-Help Program: Randomized Controlled Trial Journal of Medical Internet Research ·Heather M. Foran, Nanda Kumar Podaralla, Гаркуша Сергей Валентинович, Spencer Poff, A. tudda, Jake Groenendyk, Z.A. Ismailov, José Vagner Americo de Lima, Melanie Kambadur, Christian Filiol, Kim Wood, Y-Lan Boureau	2024	3
2	Training Models to Generate, Recognize, and Reframe Unhelpful Thoughts Mounica Maddela, C. Ransom, Jing Xu, Andrea Madotto, Heather M. Foran, Y-Lan Boureau	2023	1
3	Learning New Skills after Deployment: Improving open-domain internet-driven dialogue with human feedback Jing Xu, 武花牟禮, Mojtaba Komeili, Heewon Han, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston	2023	8
4	Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design O. V. Shumikhina, Gavin Abercrombie, Shannon Spruit, Dirk Hovy, Emily Dinan, Y-Lan Boureau, Verena Rieser	2022	6
5	SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ·Emily Dinan, Gavin Abercrombie, Osakasayama Umesaki, Shannon Spruit, Dirk Hovy, Y-Lan Boureau, Verena Rieser	2022	24
6	Human Evaluation of Conversations is an Open Problem: comparing the sensitivity of various methods for evaluating dialogue agents Eric E. Smith, Menzel Elektromotoren, С. В. Сергієв, Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston	2022	25
7	Bot-Adversarial Dialogue for Safe Conversational Agents Jing Xu, Da Young Ju, Margaret Li, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston, Emily Dinan	2021	44
8	Don’t Say That! Making Inconsistent Dialogue Unlikely with Unlikelihood Training Margaret Li, Stephen Roller, Ilia Kulikov, Sean Welleck, Y-Lan Boureau, Kyunghyun Cho, Jason Weston	2020	67
9	Recommendation as a Communication Game: Self-Supervised Bot-Play for Goal-oriented Dialogue Dongyeop Kang, Anusha Balakrishnan, Pararth Shah, Paul Crook, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston	2019	54
10	Revisiting the Evaluation of Theory of Mind through Question Answering Matthew Le, Y-Lan Boureau, Maximilian Nickel	2019	25
11	I Know the Feeling: Learning to Converse with Empathy arXiv (Cornell University) ·Hannah Rashkin, Eric M. Smith, Margaret Li, Y-Lan Boureau	2018	11
12	Multiple-Attribute Text Rewriting. International Conference on Learning Representations ·Guillaume Lample, Sandeep Subramanian, Eric M. Smith, Ludovic Denoyer, Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Y-Lan Boureau	2018	101
13	Overview of the sixth dialog system technology challenge: DSTC6 Computer Speech & Language ·Chiori Hori, Julien Pérez, Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Takaaki Hori, Y-Lan Boureau, Yasmine Tchidehou, 连淑能, Tetsuro Takahashi, Koichiro Yoshino, Seokhwan Kim	2018	24
14	Deciding How To Decide: Self-Control and Meta-Decision Making Trends in Cognitive Sciences ·Y-Lan Boureau, Peter Sokol‐Hessner, Nathaniel D. Daw	2015	116
15	Learning Convolutional Feature Hierarchies for Visual Recognition Neural Information Processing Systems ·Koray Kavukcuoglu, Pierre Sermanet, Y-Lan Boureau, Karol Gregor, Michaël Mathieu, Y. Le Cun Hit paper breakdown →	2010	328
16	Opponency Revisited: Competition and Cooperation Between Dopamine and Serotonin Neuropsychopharmacology ·Y-Lan Boureau, Peter Dayan	2010	327
17	Learning mid-level features for recognition Y-Lan Boureau, Francis Bach, Yann LeCun, Jean Ponce Hit paper breakdown →	2010	702
18	Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Feature Hierarchies with Applications to Object Recognition Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Fu Jie Huang, Y-Lan Boureau, Yann LeCun Hit paper breakdown →	2007	699
19	A Unified Energy-Based Framework for Unsupervised Learning International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics ·Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Y-Lan Boureau, Sumit Chopra, Yann LeCun	2007	53
20	Sparse Feature Learning for Deep Belief Networks Neural Information Processing Systems ·Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Y-Lan Boureau, Y. Le Cun Hit paper breakdown →	2007	457

About Y-Lan Boureau

Y-Lan Boureau is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Applied Psychology and Media Technology, having authored 23 papers that have together received 3.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Topic Modeling (11 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (6 papers), AI in Service Interactions (4 papers), Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (4 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 papers), Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (3 papers), Image and Signal Denoising Methods (2 papers) and Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (2.0k citations), Artificial Intelligence (1.5k citations), Media Technology (398 citations), Signal Processing (322 citations) and General Decision Sciences (55 citations). Y-Lan Boureau has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Israel and France. Frequent co-authors include Yann LeCun, Jean Ponce, Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Y. Le Cun, Francis Bach, Fu Jie Huang, Peter Dayan, Karol Gregor, Pierre Sermanet and Michaël Mathieu. Their work appears in journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Computer Speech & Language, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Neuropsychopharmacology and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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