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Luc Devroye

Active 1976–2026

245
Papers
18,798
Citations
54
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152
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 2,512 citing papers, 27.6% of this breakdownFrance: 730 citing papers, 8% of this breakdownCanada: 632 citing papers, 7% of this breakdownGermany: 540 citing papers, 5.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 508 citing papers, 5.6% of this breakdownChina: 499 citing papers, 5.5% of this breakdownSpain: 305 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownItaly: 293 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownAustralia: 229 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownPoland: 180 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownAustria: 157 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdownIndia: 154 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Computer Science55.7%
  • Mathematics17.8%
  • Engineering8%
  • Decision Sciences5.1%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology2.9%
  • Physics and Astronomy2.4%
  • Other8.1%

Topics

  • Statistical Methods and Inference4.5%
  • Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models4.3%
  • Machine Learning and Algorithms4%
  • Algorithms and Data Compression3.1%
  • Neural Networks and Applications2.8%
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification2.4%
  • Other78.9%

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  1. A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition

    Authors: Luc Devroye, László Györfi, Gábor Lugosi - Stochastic modelling and applied probability 1996 cited by 3,320

  2. Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation

    Authors: Luc Devroye - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, SP 1986 cited by 4,087

  3. Lectures on the Nearest Neighbor Method

    Authors: Gérard Biau, Luc Devroye - Springer series in the data sciences 2015 cited by 224

  4. Chapter 4 Nonuniform Random Variate Generation

    Authors: Luc Devroye - Handbooks in operations research and management science, Simulation 2006 cited by 110

  5. Consistency of Random Forests and Other Averaging Classifiers

    Authors: Gérard Biau, Luc Devroye, Gábor Lugosi - http://www.econ.upf.es/~lugosi/randomforestjmlr-final.pdf, J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2007 cited by 467

  6. Random variate generation for exponentially and polynomially tilted stable distributions

    Authors: Luc Devroye - ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 2009 cited by 117

  7. On the Strong Universal Consistency of Nearest Neighbor Regression Function Estimates

    Authors: Luc Devroye, László Györfi, Adam Krzyżak, Gábor Lugosi - The Annals of Statistics 1994 cited by 305

  8. A simple algorithm for generating random variates with a log-concave density

    Authors: Luc Devroye - Computing 1984 cited by 149

  9. Distribution-free performance bounds for potential function rules

    Authors: Luc Devroye, Terry J. Wagner - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 1979 cited by 230

  10. Sample-based non-uniform random variate generation

    Authors: Luc Devroye - conference on Winter simulation - WSC '86 1986 cited by 205

  11. On the Performance of Clustering in Hilbert Spaces

    Authors: Gérard Biau, Luc Devroye, Gábor Lugosi - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 2007 cited by 134

  12. Distribution-free inequalities for the deleted and holdout error estimates

    Authors: Luc Devroye, Terry J. Wagner - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 1979 cited by 120

  13. High-Dimensional Random Geometric Graphs and their Clique Number

    Authors: Luc Devroye, András György, Gábor Lugosi, Frederic Udina - Electronic Journal of Probability 2011 cited by 62

  14. Nonparametric Density Estimation: The L 1 View.

    Authors: Charles Taylor, Luc Devroye, László Györfi - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (General) 1985 cited by 745

  15. A note on the height of binary search trees

    Authors: Luc Devroye - Journal of the ACM, J. ACM 1986 cited by 234

  16. Detection of Abnormal Behavior Via Nonparametric Estimation of the Support

    Authors: Luc Devroye, G.L. Wise - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 1980 cited by 179

  17. The uniform convergence of nearest neighbor regression function estimators and their application in optimization

    Authors: Luc Devroye - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 1978 cited by 141

  18. Cuckoo hashing: Further analysis

    Authors: Luc Devroye, Pat Morin - Information Processing Letters, Inf. Process. Lett. 2003 cited by 89

  19. Lower Bounds for Bayes Error Estimation

    Authors: András Antos, Luc Devroye, László Györfi - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 1999 cited by 77

  20. Random variate generation for the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution

    Authors: Luc Devroye - Statistics and Computing, Stat. Comput. 2012 cited by 56

  21. Almost all Delaunay triangulations have stretch factor greater than pi/2

    Authors: Prosenjit Bose, Luc Devroye, Maarten Löffler, Jack Snoeyink, Vishal Verma - Computational Geometry, Comput. Geom. 2010 cited by 38

  22. Simulating Size-constrained Galton-Watson Trees

    Authors: Luc Devroye - SIAM Journal on Computing, SIAM J. Comput. 2012 cited by 30

  23. Sampling with arbitrary precision

    Authors: Luc Devroye, Claude Gravel - arXiv (Cornell University), CoRR 2015 cited by 13

  24. Distribution-Free Consistency Results in Nonparametric Discrimination and Regression Function Estimation

    Authors: Luc Devroye, T. Wagner - The Annals of Statistics 1980 cited by 228