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Yee Whye Teh
Co-author of the fast learning algorithm for deep belief networks that reopened deep architectures in 2006.
Organizations
University of OxfordGatsby Computational Neuroscience UnitDeepMind
Major Achievements
- •Co-authored 'A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets' (2006) with Geoffrey Hinton and Simon Osindero, the paper that restarted deep learning.
- •Developed hierarchical Dirichlet processes, a foundation of Bayesian nonparametrics.
- •Supervised research at Oxford and DeepMind spanning probabilistic and deep methods.
- •Advised Aidan Gomez, a co-author of the Transformer paper.
Key Papers
- A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets
Geoffrey E. Hinton, Simon Osindero, Yee-Whye Teh · Neural Computation · 2006