Sepp Hochreiter
Hochreiter in 2012
Born (1967-02-14) 14 February 1967 (age 56)
Mühldorf, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materTechnische Universität München
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning, bioinformatics
InstitutionsJohannes Kepler University Linz
ThesisGeneralisierung bei neuronalen Netzen geringer Komplexität (1999)
Doctoral advisorWilfried Brauer
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Josef "Sepp" Hochreiter (born 14 February 1967) is a German computer scientist. Since 2018 he has led the Institute for Machine Learning at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz after having led the Institute of Bioinformatics from 2006 to 2018. In 2017 he became the head of the Linz Institute of Technology (LIT) AI Lab. Hochreiter is also a founding director of the Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence (IARAI).[1] Previously, he was at the Technical University of Berlin, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at the Technical University of Munich. He is a chair of the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA) conference.[2]

Hochreiter has made contributions in the fields of machine learning, deep learning and bioinformatics, most notably the development of the long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network architecture,[3][4] but also in meta-learning,[5] reinforcement learning[6][7] and biclustering with application to bioinformatics data.

Scientific career

Long short-term memory (LSTM)

Hochreiter developed the long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network architecture in his diploma thesis in 1991 leading to the main publication in 1997.[3][4] LSTM overcomes the problem of numerical instability in training recurrent neural networks (RNNs) that prevents them from learning from long sequences (vanishing or exploding gradient).[3][8][9] In 2007, Hochreiter and others successfully applied LSTM with an optimized architecture to very fast protein homology detection without requiring a sequence alignment.[10] LSTM networks have also been used in Google Voice for transcription[11] and search,[12] and in the Google Allo chat app for generating response suggestion with low latency.[13]

Other machine learning contributions

Beyond LSTM, Hochreiter has developed "Flat Minimum Search" to increase the generalization of neural networks[14] and introduced rectified factor networks (RFNs) for sparse coding[15][16] which have been applied in bioinformatics and genetics.[17] Hochreiter introduced modern Hopfield networks with continuous states[18] and applied them to the task of immune repertoire classification.[19]

Hochreiter worked with Jürgen Schmidhuber in the field of reinforcement learning on actor-critic systems that learn by "backpropagation through a model".[6][20]

Hochreiter has been involved in the development of factor analysis methods with application to bioinformatics, including FABIA for biclustering,[21] HapFABIA for detecting short segments of identity by descent[22] and FARMS for preprocessing and summarizing high-density oligonucleotide DNA microarrays to analyze RNA gene expression.[23]

In 2006, Hochreiter and others proposed an extension of the support vector machine (SVM), the "Potential Support Vector Machine" (PSVM),[24] which can be applied to non-square kernel matrices and can be used with kernels that are not positive definite. Hochreiter and his collaborators have applied PSVM to feature selection, including gene selection for microarray data.[25][26][27]

Awards

Hochreiter was awarded the IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Prize in 2021 for his work on LSTM.[28]

References

  1. ^ "IARAI – INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED RESEARCH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE". www.iarai.ac.at. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  2. ^ "CAMDA 2021". 20th International Conference on Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  3. ^ a b c Hochreiter, S. (1991). Untersuchungen zu dynamischen neuronalen Netzen (PDF) (diploma thesis). Technical University Munich, Institute of Computer Science.
  4. ^ a b Hochreiter, S.; Schmidhuber, J. (1997). "Long Short-Term Memory". Neural Computation. 9 (8): 1735–1780. doi:10.1162/neco.1997.9.8.1735. PMID 9377276. S2CID 1915014.
  5. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Younger, A. S.; Conwell, P. R. (2001). "Learning to Learn Using Gradient Descent". Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN 2001 (PDF). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2130. pp. 87–94. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.5.323. doi:10.1007/3-540-44668-0_13. ISBN 978-3-540-42486-4. ISSN 0302-9743. S2CID 52872549.
  6. ^ a b Hochreiter, S. (1991). Implementierung und Anwendung eines neuronalen Echtzeit-Lernalgorithmus für reaktive Umgebungen (PDF) (Report). Technical University Munich, Institute of Computer Science.
  7. ^ Arjona-Medina, J. A.; Gillhofer, M.; Widrich, M.; Unterthiner, T.; Hochreiter, S. (2018). "RUDDER: Return Decomposition for Delayed Rewards". arXiv:1806.07857 [cs.LG].
  8. ^ Hochreiter, S. (1998). "The Vanishing Gradient Problem During Learning Recurrent Neural Nets and Problem Solutions". International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems. 06 (2): 107–116. doi:10.1142/S0218488598000094. ISSN 0218-4885. S2CID 18452318.
  9. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Bengio, Y.; Frasconi, P.; Schmidhuber, J. (2000). Kolen, J. F.; Kremer, S. C. (eds.). Gradient flow in recurrent nets: the difficulty of learning long-term dependencies. A Field Guide to Dynamical Recurrent Networks. New York City: IEEE Press. pp. 237–244. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.24.7321.
  10. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Heusel, M.; Obermayer, K. (2007). "Fast model-based protein homology detection without alignment". Bioinformatics. 23 (14): 1728–1736. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm247. PMID 17488755.
  11. ^ "The neural networks behind Google Voice transcription". 11 August 2015.
  12. ^ "Google voice search: faster and more accurate". 24 September 2015.
  13. ^ Khaitan, Pranav (May 18, 2016). "Chat Smarter with Allo". Google AI Blog. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  14. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Schmidhuber, J. (1997). "Flat Minima". Neural Computation. 9 (1): 1–42. doi:10.1162/neco.1997.9.1.1. PMID 9117894. S2CID 733161.
  15. ^ Clevert, D.-A.; Mayr, A.; Unterthiner, T.; Hochreiter, S. (2015). "Rectified Factor Networks". arXiv:1502.06464v2 [cs.LG].
  16. ^ Clevert, D.-A.; Mayr, A.; Unterthiner, T.; Hochreiter, S. (2015). Rectified Factor Networks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 29. arXiv:1502.06464.
  17. ^ Clevert, D.-A.; Unterthiner, T.; Povysil, G.; Hochreiter, S. (2017). "Rectified factor networks for biclustering of omics data". Bioinformatics. 33 (14): i59–i66. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btx226. PMC 5870657. PMID 28881961.
  18. ^ Ramsauer, H.; Schäfl, B.; Lehner, J.; Seidl, P.; Widrich, M.; Gruber, L.; Holzleitner, M.; Pavlović, M.; Sandve, G. K.; Greiff, V.; Kreil, D.; Kopp, M.; Klambauer, G.; Brandstetter, J.; Hochreiter, S. (2020). "Hopfield Networks is All You Need". arXiv:2008.02217 [cs.NE].
  19. ^ Widrich, M.; Schäfl, B.; Ramsauer, H.; Pavlović, M.; Gruber, L.; Holzleitner, M.; Brandstetter, J.; Sandve, G. K.; Greiff, V.; Hochreiter, S.; Klambauer, G. (2020). "Modern Hopfield Networks and Attention for Immune Repertoire Classification". arXiv:2007.13505 [cs.LG].
  20. ^ Schmidhuber, J. (1990). Making the world differentiable: On Using Fully Recurrent Self-Supervised Neural Networks for Dynamic Reinforcement Learning and Planning in Non-Stationary Environments (PDF) (Technical report). Technical University Munich, Institute of Computer Science. FKI-126-90 (revised).
  21. ^ Hochreiter, Sepp; Bodenhofer, Ulrich; Heusel, Martin; Mayr, Andreas; Mitterecker, Andreas; Kasim, Adetayo; Khamiakova, Tatsiana; Van Sanden, Suzy; Lin, Dan; Talloen, Willem; Bijnens, Luc; Göhlmann, Hinrich W. H.; Shkedy, Ziv; Clevert, Djork-Arné (2010-06-15). "FABIA: factor analysis for bicluster acquisition". Bioinformatics. 26 (12): 1520–1527. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq227. PMC 2881408. PMID 20418340.
  22. ^ Hochreiter, S. (2013). "HapFABIA: Identification of very short segments of identity by descent characterized by rare variants in large sequencing data". Nucleic Acids Research. 41 (22): e202. doi:10.1093/nar/gkt1013. PMC 3905877. PMID 24174545.
  23. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Clevert, D.-A.; Obermayer, K. (2006). "A new summarization method for affymetrix probe level data". Bioinformatics. 22 (8): 943–949. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl033. PMID 16473874.
  24. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Obermayer, K. (2006). "Support Vector Machines for Dyadic Data". Neural Computation. 18 (6): 1472–1510. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.228.5244. doi:10.1162/neco.2006.18.6.1472. PMID 16764511. S2CID 26201227.
  25. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Obermayer, K. (2006). Nonlinear Feature Selection with the Potential Support Vector Machine. Feature Extraction, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. pp. 419–438. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-35488-8_20. ISBN 978-3-540-35487-1.
  26. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Obermayer, K. (2003). "Classification and Feature Selection on Matrix Data with Application to Gene-Expression Analysis". 54th Session of the International Statistical Institute. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25.
  27. ^ Hochreiter, S.; Obermayer, K. (2004). "Gene Selection for Microarray Data". Kernel Methods in Computational Biology. MIT Press: 319–355. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25.
  28. ^ "Sepp Hochreiter receives IEEE CIS Neural Networks Pioneer Award 2021 - IARAI". www.iarai.ac.at. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2021.

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