- Yoav Freund
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field = Computer Science
work_institution =University of California, San Diego
alma_mater =University of California, Santa Cruz
doctoral_advisor =Manfred K. Warmuth ,David Haussler
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known_for =AdaBoost
prizes = Gödel prize (2003)Yoav Freund is a researcher and professor at the
University of California, San Diego who mainly works onmachine learning ,probability theory and related fields and applications.From his homepage:
My main area of research is computational learning theory and the related areas in probability theory, information theory, statistics and pattern recognition. I work on applications of machine learning algorithms in bio-informatics, computer vision, network routing and high-performance computing.
He is probably 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 withRobert Schapire .Professor Freund is a
Talpiot program graduate.External links
* [http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~yfreund/ Freund's homepage at UCSD]
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AdaBoost
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