Yoav Freund, an Israeli mathematician, computer scientist and professor of CS at the University of California, San Diego. His research covers the area of machine learning, computational statistics, data mining and their applications. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1993 from University of California, Santa Cruz, advisors of his thesis Data Filtering and Distribution Modeling Algorithms for Machine Learning were Manfred K. Warmuth, David Haussler and David P. Helmbold [1]. He is most famous for his work with Robert Schapire on boosting and the formulation of the AdaBoost algorithm [2], awarded with the 2003 Gödel prize in theoretical computer science, and with the Paris Kanellakis Prize in 2004 [3]. Further, along with Peter Auer and Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire worked on multi-armed bandit problems [4].
Yoav Freund [5]

Selected Publications

1990 ...

• Yoav Freund (1990). Boosting a Weak Learning Algorithm by Majority. COLT 1990
• Yoav Freund, David Haussler (1991). Unsupervised Learning of Distributions of Binary Vectors Using 2-Layer Networks. NIPS 1991
• Yoav Freund (1993). Data Filtering and Distribution Modeling Algorithms for Machine Learning. Ph.D. thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, advisors Manfred K. Warmuth, David Haussler, David P. Helmbold, CiteSeerX

1995 ...

• Yoav Freund.(1995). Boosting a weak learning algorithm by majority. Information and Computation, Vol. 121, No. 2, pdf
• Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (1996). Game Theory, On-line Prediction and Boosting. COLT 1996, pdf
• Yoav Freund (1996). Predicting a Binary Sequence Almost As Well As the Optimal Biased Coin. COLT 1996, pdf
• Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Yoav Freund, David P. Helmbold, Manfred K. Warmuth (1996). On-line Prediction and Conversion Strategies. Machine Learning, Vol. 25, No 1, pdf
• Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (1997). A decision-theoretic generalization of on-line learning and an application to boosting. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Vol. 55, No. 1, 1996 pdf » AdaBoost
• Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Yoav Freund, David P. Helmbold, David Haussler, Robert Schapire, Manfred K. Warmuth (1997). How to Use Expert Advice. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 44, No. 3, pdf
• Peter Auer, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (1998). Gambling in a rigged casino: The adversarial multi-arm bandit problem. NeuroCOLT2, pdf
• Robert Schapire, Yoav Freund, Peter Bartlett, Wee Sun Lee (1998). Boosting the margin: A new explanation for the effectiveness of voting methods. Annals of Statistic, pdf
• Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (1999). Adaptive game playing using multiplicative weights. Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 29, pdf
• Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (1999). Large Margin Classification using the Perception Algorithm. Machine Learning, Vol. 37, No. 3, pdf

2000 ...

• Yoav Freund, Manfred Opper (2000). Continuous Drifting Games. COLT 2000, pdf, 2001 pdf
• Yoav Freund (2001). An Adaptive Version of the Boost by Majority Algorithm. Machine Learning, Vol. 43, No. 3
• Yoav Freund, Manfred Opper (2002). Drifting Games and Brownian Motion. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Vol. 64, No. 1 ^[7]
• Peter Auer, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (2002). The Nonstochastic Multiarmed Bandit Problem. SIAM Journal on Computing, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2001 pdf

2005 ...

• Sanjoy Dasgupta, Yoav Freund (2008). Random projection trees and low dimensional manifolds. STOC 2008, pdf
• Yoav Freund (2008). From Microscopy Images to Models of Cellular Processes. ECML/PKDD
• Sanjoy Dasgupta, Yoav Freund (2009). Random projection trees for vector quantization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7

2010 ...

• Yoav Freund (2010). Data winnowing. KDD 2010, abstract as pdf
• Robert Schapire, Yoav Freund (2012). Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms. MIT Press
• Akshay Balsubramani, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Yoav Freund (2013). The Fast Convergence of Incremental PCA. arXiv:1501.03796 ^[8]

2015 ...

• Akshay Balsubramani, Yoav Freund (2015). PAC-Bayes with Minimax for Confidence-Rated Transduction. arXiv:1501.03838 ^[9]
• Akshay Balsubramani, Yoav Freund (2015). Optimally Combining Classifiers Using Unlabeled Data. arXiv:1503.01811

External Links

• Yoav Freund's Home Page
• Yoav Freund from Wikipedia
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yoav Freund
• Yoav Freund | LinkedIn
• Yoav Freund - Google Scholar Citations

References

1. ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Yoav Freund
2. ^ Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (1997). A decision-theoretic generalization of on-line learning and an application to boosting. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Vol. 55, No. 1, 1996 pdf
3. ^ Data Winnowing Abstract - Bio (pdf)
4. ^ Peter Auer, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire (1998). Gambling in a rigged casino: The adversarial multi-arm bandit problem. NeuroCOLT2, pdf
5. ^ Yoav Freund's Home Page
6. ^ dblp: Yoav Freund
7. ^ [Learning] Reminder: Learning Games and Brownian Motion by Yoav Freund, September 30, 2003
8. ^ Principal component analysis from Wikipedia
9. ^ Probably approximately correct learning from Wikipedia

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