Lucien Le Cam 1924-2000

Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).

Professor Mirko D Grmek, historian of science and medicine, died in Paris on 6 March 2000 aged seventy-six, at the end of a long and trying disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. "Crossing the borders" can be taken as the motto of his life and work. Without ever losing his cultural and personal roots, he was ready to widen and expand his interests and subjects of work. Of Croatian origin, he b...

In memoriam. Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).

Laurent Le Cam , Elena Vigo , Claude Sardet and Kristian

Le Cam meets LeCun: Deficiency and Generic Feature Learning

Deep Learning” methods attempt to learn generic features in an unsupervised fashion from a large unlabelled data set. These generic features should perform as well as the best hand crafted features for any learning problem that makes use of this data. We provide a definition of generic features, characterize when it is possible to learn them and provide algorithms closely related to the deep be...

Some thoughts on Le Cam ’ s statistical decision theory

The paper contains some musings about the abstractions introduced by Lucien Le Cam into the asymptotic theory of statistical inference and decision theory. A short, self-contained proof of a key result (existence of randomizations via convergence in distribution of likelihood ratios), and an outline of a proof of a local asymptotic minimax theorem, are presented as an illustration of how Le Cam...