Robert Jacobs
Cognitive scientist who co-introduced mixtures of local experts
A professor of brain and cognitive sciences at Rochester and co-author of the 1991 paper “Adaptive Mixtures of Local Experts”, the origin of the mixture-of-experts design.
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