Yoav Freund is an Israeli professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego who works mainly on machine learning, probability theory and related applications. He is best known for his work on the AdaBoost algorithm, an ensemble learning method that combines many weak learning machines into a more robust one, for which he and Robert Schapire received the 2003 Godel Prize; he was also awarded the 2004 Paris Kanellakis Award and elected an AAAI Fellow in 2008.
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Yoav Freund co-invented AdaBoost, the first practical boosting algorithm, with Robert Schapire in 1995.
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1. Wikipedia: Yoav Freund
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born 1961) is an Israeli professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego
2. Yoav Freund (Wikidata)
Wikidata alias: Yoav S. Freund
Yoav S. Freund
Wikidata P166: Paris Kanellakis Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): Paris Kanellakis Award.
Wikidata P166: Gödel Prize
Wikidata P166 (award received): Gödel Prize.
Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
Wikidata alias: Yoav S Freund
Yoav S Freund
P569 (date of birth): 1961-05-04
1961-05-04
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