--- title: "Frédéric Bastien — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Frédéric Bastien: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2012–2016), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bastien/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bastien/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Frédéric Bastien # Frédéric Bastien Frédéric Bastien has 2 papers in our library, in 2012–2016, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/), [Amjad Almahairi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amjad-almahairi/), [David Warde-Farley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-warde-farley/). 2 papers in our library · 2012–2016 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5073544973) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5073544973) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073544973) · [4,124 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073544973&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bastien/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 328 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bastien/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2251](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/23/#star-2251) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastien) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastien) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastien) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Bastien) ## Affiliations [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2006–2015 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🏢**Nvidia** Reading · United Kingdom 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/nvidia-united-kingdom/) · [🏢**Nvidia** Santa Clara · United States 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/nvidia/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 3 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bastien/year/2016/) · [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bastien/year/2012/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Theano: new features and speed improvements](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bastien-2012-theano-new-features-speed-improvements/)** *(2012 · 1,111 citations)* This 2012 report describes how Theano, a Python-based compiler that turns symbolic linear-algebra expressions into optimized CPU or GPU code, was extended and made faster. 2. **[Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/the-theano-development-team-2016-theano-python-framework-fast-computation/)** *(2016 · 179 citations)* Python is convenient for prototyping numerical code, but its interpreter is slow and uses memory inefficiently for heavy array computation. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/) ×2 - [Amjad Almahairi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amjad-almahairi/) - [David Warde-Farley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-warde-farley/) - [Dzmitry Bahdanau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dzmitry-bahdanau/) - [Ian Goodfellow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-goodfellow/) - [Nicolas Ballas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-ballas/) - [Rami Al-Rfou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rami-al-rfou/) - [Razvan Pascanu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-pascanu/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 328 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [52 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-bastien/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026