François Chollet is a French

software engineer Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term ''p ...

and

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

researcher currently working at

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. Chollet is the creator of the

Keras Keras is an open-source software library that provides a Python interface for artificial neural networks. Keras acts as an interface for the TensorFlow library. Up until version 2.3, Keras supported multiple backends, including TensorFlow, Micro ...

deep-learning library, released in 2015, and a main contributor to the

TensorFlow TensorFlow is a free and open-source software library for machine learning and artificial intelligence. It can be used across a range of tasks but has a particular focus on training and inference of deep neural networks. "It is machine learnin ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

framework. His research focuses on

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

, the application of

formal reasoning Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, lan ...

abstraction Abstraction in its main sense is a conceptual process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal ("real" or "concrete") signifiers, first principles, or other methods. "An abstr ...

, and how to achieve greater generality in artificial intelligence. Chollet graduated with a

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from the

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school in 2012 and started working at Google in 2015. His papers have been published at major conferences in the field, including the

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(CVPR), the

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(NeurIPS), the

International Conference on Learning Representations The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is a machine learning conference typically held in late April or early May each year. The conference includes invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed pap ...

(ICLR). He is the author of ''Xception: Deep Learning with Depthwise Separable Convolutions'', which is among the top ten most cited papers in CVPR proceedings. Chollet is the author of ''Deep Learning with Python'', the co-author with

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of ''Deep Learning With R'', and the creator of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) Challenge. On December 1, 2021, Chollet won the Global Swiss AI Award for breakthroughs in AI.

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