bottou

Lush started out as a (differently named) project of Leon Bottou and Yann LeCun, which might serve as an endorsement...

Is this not the heart of the IRM paper by Arjovsky, Bottou et al.?

It seems Léon Bottou is an important figure in Machine learning.

I guess you can count Yann LeCun, Leon Bottou and Richard Sutton among those.

Leon Bottou isn't a humanities professor, but a ML researcher.

Lush was mostly maintained by Leon Bottou and me.

I'm pretty sure Bottou also contributed here, but I'm forgetting the exact cite.

However, Leon Bottou argued there must be an upper bound (1000?) on the number of bits required to represent English sentences that a human could recognize and parse in the course of normal conversation.

Most foundational works in language modeling started as pure statistical models (for example, classic ngram models and Bengio's original neural language model from 2003), and it was later that hacks got introduced that removed statistical properties but actually just worked (Collobert and Weston 2008, as influenced by Bottou and LeCun).

LeCun, Bottou, et al (2002) in "Efficient Backprop" described techniques for improving backprop algorithms.

It, along with the other APLs, is definitely its own thing, just as much as Lisp is (my previous favorite weird language was Yann LeCun and Leon Bottou's "Lush,"[1] which I continue to think is an amazing design).

In those days there was a lovely LuaJIT based tensor manipulation language torch7 [1,2] developed by Leon Bottou.

He was working at a research group at ATT Labs with people like Corinna Cortes, León Bottou, and Yann LeCun.

SN(1987) neural network simulator for AmigaOS (Leon Bottou, Yann LeCun) | SN1(1988) ported to SunOS.