Yoshua Bengio

447.2k citations
412 papers · 192.7k indexed · 48 hit papers · h-index 98
Co-authors
Yann LeCunGeoffrey E. HintonLéon BottouPatrick HaffnerAaron CourvilleXavier GlorotIan GoodfellowPascal Vincent
Topics
Neural Networks and Applications (103 papers)Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (62 papers)Topic Modeling (57 papers)
Cited by
Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceSignal Processing
Journals
NatureScienceThe Journal of Chemical Physics
Partner nations
CanadaUnited StatesUnited Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Yoshua Bengio

398 papers receiving 184.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Deep learning
    2015 53.7k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  2. Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition
    1998 34.5k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  3. Generative adversarial networks
    2020 8.1k citations Ian Goodfellow, Aaron Courville et al. profile →
  4. Understanding the difficulty of training deep feedforward neural networks
    2010 7.8k citations Xavier Glorot, Yoshua Bengio profile →
  5. Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives
    2013 7.7k citations Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville et al. profile →
  6. Deep Learning
    2016 5.8k citations Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio et al. MIT Press eBooks profile →
  7. Random search for hyper-parameter optimization
    2012 5.5k citations James Bergstra, Yoshua Bengio profile →
  8. Learning long-term dependencies with gradient descent is difficult
    1994 5.5k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  9. Learning Deep Architectures for AI
    2009 4.8k citations Yoshua Bengio profile →
  10. Extracting and composing robust features with denoising autoencoders
    2008 4.4k citations Pascal Vincent, Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  11. Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention
    2015 4.2k citations Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  12. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
    2008 3.6k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  13. Learning Deep Architectures for AI
    2009 3.4k citations Yoshua Bengio profile →
  14. Stacked Denoising Autoencoders: Learning Useful Representations in a Deep Network with a Local Denoising Criterion
    2010 3.3k citations Pascal Vincent, Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  15. Curriculum learning
    2009 2.6k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  16. How transferable are features in deep neural networks?
    2014 2.3k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  17. Brain tumor segmentation with Deep Neural Networks
    2016 2.1k citations Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  18. Why Does Unsupervised Pre-training Help Deep Learning?
    2010 1.4k citations Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  19. Word Representations: A Simple and General Method for Semi-Supervised Learning
    2010 1.2k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  20. The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu: Fully Convolutional DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation
    2017 1.1k citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  21. Exploring Strategies for Training Deep Neural Networks
    2009 758 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  22. HotpotQA: A Dataset for Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering
    2018 732 citations Zhilin Yang, Peng Qi et al. profile →
  23. Machine learning for combinatorial optimization: A methodological tour d'horizon
    2021 719 citations Yoshua Bengio, Andrea Lodi et al. profile →
  24. Theano: A CPU and GPU Math Compiler in Python
    2010 686 citations James Bergstra, Guillaume Desjardins et al. profile →
  25. A Neural Probabilistic Language Model
    2000 678 citations Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent et al. profile →
  26. Contractive Auto-Encoders: Explicit Invariance During Feature Extraction
    2011 675 citations Salah Rifai, Pascal Vincent et al. International Conference on Machine Learning profile →
  27. An empirical evaluation of deep architectures on problems with many factors of variation
    2007 665 citations Aaron Courville, James Bergstra et al. profile →
  28. Scaling learning algorithms towards AI
    2007 617 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  29. Out-of-Sample Extensions for LLE, Isomap, MDS, Eigenmaps, and Spectral Clustering
    2003 599 citations Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent et al. profile →
  30. Semi-supervised Learning by Entropy Minimization
    2004 527 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. Neural Information Processing Systems profile →
  31. Representational Power of Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Deep Belief Networks
    2008 527 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  32. Toward Causal Representation Learning
    2021 519 citations Bernhard Schölkopf, Anirudh Goyal et al. profile →
  33. Deep Learning of Representations for Unsupervised and Transfer Learning.
    2011 517 citations Yoshua Bengio International Conference on Machine Learning profile →
  34. No Unbiased Estimator of the Variance of K-Fold Cross-Validation
    2003 513 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  35. On Using Very Large Target Vocabulary for Neural Machine Translation
    2015 465 citations Sébastien Jean, Kyunghyun Cho et al. profile →
  36. Hierarchical Probabilistic Neural Network Language Model.
    2005 450 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  37. Classification using discriminative restricted Boltzmann machines
    2008 449 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  38. A semantic matching energy function for learning with multi-relational data
    2013 416 citations Xavier Glorot, Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  39. How to Construct Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
    2014 400 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. International Conference on Learning Representations profile →
  40. Maxout Networks
    2013 380 citations Ian Goodfellow, Aaron Courville et al. profile →
  41. Deep learning for AI
    2021 355 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  42. A closer look at memorization in deep networks
    2017 344 citations Tegan Maharaj, Aaron Courville et al. profile →
  43. An Empirical Investigation of Catastrophic Forgetting in Gradient-Based Neural Networks
    2014 341 citations Ian Goodfellow, Aaron Courville et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  44. BinaryNet: Training Deep Neural Networks with Weights and Activations Constrained to +1 or -1
    2016 318 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  45. Mutual Information Neural Estimation.
    2018 302 citations Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville et al. International Conference on Machine Learning profile →
  46. A Hierarchical Recurrent Encoder-Decoder for Generative Context-Aware Query Suggestion
    2015 270 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  47. Light Gated Recurrent Units for Speech Recognition
    2018 267 citations Yoshua Bengio et al. profile →
  48. Inductive biases for deep learning of higher-level cognition
    2022 129 citations Anirudh Goyal, Yoshua Bengio profile →

Peers

Yoshua Bengio
Comparison fields: 5 of 241
  • Artificial Intelligence 80.5k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 61.3k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 18.6k
  • Signal Processing 15.1k
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 13.3k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
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Government Interventions to Avert Future Catastrophic AI Risks
2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Yoshua Bengio
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Sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states
2024 ·Neuroscience of Consciousness ·(unknown),(unknown),George Deane,Axel Constant,Guillaume Dumas,Guillaume Lajoie,Jonathan Simon,Yoshua Bengio
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Towards equilibrium molecular conformation generation with GFlowNets
2024 ·Digital Discovery ·(unknown),Michał Koziarski,Álex Hernández-García,Chenghao Liu,Santiago Miret,Pablo Lemos,(unknown),(unknown),Alán Aspuru‐Guzik,Yoshua Bengio
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Proactive Contact Tracing
2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown),Tegan Maharaj,(unknown),Nasim Rahaman,Hannah Alsdurf,Nanor Minoyan,(unknown),Joanna Merckx,(unknown),Victor Schmidt,Pierre-Luc St-Charles,(unknown),(unknown),David L. Buckeridge,Christopher Pal,Bernhard Schölkopf,Yoshua Bengio
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Predicting Tactical Solutions to Operational Planning Problems under Imperfect Information
2022 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Eric Larsen,(unknown),Yoshua Bengio,Emma Frejinger,Simon Lacoste-Julien,Andrea Lodi
21
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Reinforcement Learning with Competitive Ensembles of Information-Constrained Primitives
2020 ·International Conference on Learning Representations ·Anirudh Goyal,Shagun Sodhani,Jonathan Binas,Xue Bin Peng,Sergey Levine,Yoshua Bengio
2
7
Online continual learning with no task boundaries.
2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Rahaf Aljundi,Min Lin,(unknown),Yoshua Bengio
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HotpotQA: A Dataset for Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answeringbreakdown →
2018 ·Zhilin Yang,Peng Qi,Saizheng Zhang,Yoshua Bengio,William W. Cohen,Ruslan Salakhutdinov,Christopher D. Manning
732
9
FigureQA: An Annotated Figure Dataset for Visual Reasoning
2017 ·International Conference on Learning Representations ·Samira Ebrahimi Kahou,(unknown),Vincent Michalski,Ákos Kádár,Adam Trischler,Yoshua Bengio
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Deep Learningbreakdown →
2016 ·MIT Press eBooks ·Ian Goodfellow,Yoshua Bengio,Aaron Courville
5794
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Architectural Complexity Measures of Recurrent Neural Networks
2016 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Saizheng Zhang,Yuhuai Wu,Tong Che,Zhouhan Lin,Roland Memisevic,Russ R. Salakhutdinov,Yoshua Bengio
16
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On Using Very Large Target Vocabulary for Neural Machine Translationbreakdown →
2015 ·Sébastien Jean,Kyunghyun Cho,Roland Memisevic,Yoshua Bengio
465
13
Marginalized Denoising Auto-encoders for Nonlinear Representations
2014 ·International Conference on Machine Learning ·Minmin Chen,Kilian Q. Weinberger,Fei Sha,Yoshua Bengio
72
14
On Tracking The Partition Function
2011 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Guillaume Desjardins,Yoshua Bengio,Aaron Courville
11
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Contractive Auto-Encoders: Explicit Invariance During Feature Extractionbreakdown →
2011 ·International Conference on Machine Learning ·Salah Rifai,Pascal Vincent,Xavier Muller,Xavier Glorot,Yoshua Bengio
675
16
Unsupervised Models of Images by Spike-and-Slab RBMs
2011 ·International Conference on Machine Learning ·Yoshua Bengio,Aaron Courville,James Bergstra
38
17
Shallow vs. Deep Sum-Product Networks
2011 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Olivier Delalleau,Yoshua Bengio
122
18
Training Methods for Adaptive Boosting of Neural Networks
1997 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Holger Schwenk,Yoshua Bengio
28
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On the generalization capability of multi-layered networks in the extraction of speech properties
1989 ·Renato De Mori,Yoshua Bengio,Piero Cosi
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A Neural Network to Detect Homologies in Proteins
1989 ·Neural Information Processing Systems ·Yoshua Bengio,Samy Bengio,Yannick Pouliot,(unknown)
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About Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing, having authored 412 papers that have together received 192.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neural Networks and Applications (103 papers), Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (62 papers) and Topic Modeling (57 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (61.3k citations), Artificial Intelligence (80.5k citations) and Signal Processing (15.1k citations). Yoshua Bengio has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Yann LeCun, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Léon Bottou, Patrick Haffner, Aaron Courville, Xavier Glorot, Ian Goodfellow, Pascal Vincent, James Bergstra and Hugo Larochelle. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

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