Yoav Freund

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Yoav Freund
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of California, San Diego
Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz
Doctoral advisor Manfred K. Warmuth, David Haussler
Known for AdaBoost
Notable awards Gödel prize (2003)

Yoav Freund is professor of computer science at the University of California, San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications. He is best known for his work on the AdaBoost algorithm, a meta-learning algorithm which is used to combine many "weak" learning machines to create a more robust one. He received the Gödel prize in 2003 for his work on AdaBoost with Robert Schapire.

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