AdaBoost machine learning

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Who

Yoav Freund, an Israeli-born computer scientist, and Robert Schapire.

When

1995–1997

Where

USA

AdaBoost is a foundational machine-learning algorithm that combines many weak classifiers into a single strong one, and it powered early face-detection systems. It was created by Israeli-born computer scientist Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire, who received the 2003 Gödel Prize for the work.

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Part of “The Gifts of the Jews” — verified Jewish contributions to the world, with sources.