Francis Bach

Accomplishments

• SIERRA team¹
• Learning Theory from First Principles¹
• Kernel methods and optimization¹

Research and teaching

Bach's ENS page lists interests in statistical machine learning, especially optimization, sparse methods, kernel-based learning, neural networks, graphical models, and signal processing. In December 2024 MIT Press published Bach's book Learning Theory from First Principles.¹²

Work and contributions

• Learning Theory from First Principles Show, channel or publication

  Author of the MIT Press book Learning Theory from First Principles (December 2024).¹²

Honors and recognition

• French Academy of Sciences (2020) · ¹

Where they work

• Inria 2 people in the wiki
• École Normale Supérieure 1 person in the wiki

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