Kingma

Kingma is a Dutch surname. Notable people bearing the name include Diederik P. Kingma, a Dutch computer scientist whose work has significantly influenced modern machine learning. Kingma is best known for co-authoring the Adam optimization algorithm with Jimmy Ba, a method widely used for training deep neural networks, and for co-authoring the Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes paper with Max Welling, which introduced variational autoencoders as a framework for unsupervised learning. His contributions have helped shape contemporary approaches to optimization and probabilistic modeling in artificial intelligence.