Yann LeCun
Architect of the Convolutional Net
LeNet, and pushing Meta to release its models
Rating
97Impact score
Domains
Convolutional networksSelf-supervised learningOpen models
Scouting report
Built LeNet in the late 1980s and had convolutional networks reading cheques at industrial scale while the rest of the field doubted them. Shared the 2018 Turing Award. As Meta’s chief AI scientist he has been the loudest senior voice for releasing weights rather than gatekeeping them, which is a large part of why open-weight models exist at all.
Curator’s note
The open-weight ecosystem has one very stubborn advocate to thank.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Yann LeCun by Ecole polytechnique from Paris, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sources
- 01Yann LeCun en.wikipedia.org
- 02Gradient-Based Learning Applied to Document Recognition (1998) yann.lecun.com