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Known for
  
AdaBoost

Name
  
Yoav Freund


Fields
  
Computer Science

Notable awards
  
Godel Prize

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Institutions
  
University of California, San Diego

Alma mater
  
University of California, Santa Cruz

Thesis
  
Data filtering and distribution modeling algorithms for machine learning (1993)

Education
  
University of California, Santa Cruz

Books
  
Boosting, Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms

Doctoral advisor
  
Manfred K. Warmuth, David Haussler

Similar People
  
Robert Schapire, Manfred K Warmuth, David Haussler

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Yoav Freund (Hebrew: יואב פרוינד‎‎) is an Israeli 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, an ensemble 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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He is an alumnus of the prestigious Talpiot program of the Israeli army.

Books

  • Robert Schapire; Yoav Freund (2012). Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms. MIT. ISBN 978-0-262-01718-3. 
  • References

    Yoav Freund Wikipedia