Robert Schapire
Encyclopedia
Robert Elias Schapire is a professor and researcher in the computer science
department at Princeton University
. His primary specialty is theoretical and applied machine learning
.
His work led to the development of the boosting
meta-algorithm used in machine learning. Together with Yoav Freund
, he invented the AdaBoost
algorithm in 1996. He received the Gödel prize
in 2003 for his work on AdaBoost with Yoav Freund
.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
department at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. His primary specialty is theoretical and applied machine learning
Machine learning
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
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His work led to the development of the boosting
Boosting
Boosting is a machine learning meta-algorithm for performing supervised learning. Boosting is based on the question posed by Kearns: can a set of weak learners create a single strong learner? A weak learner is defined to be a classifier which is only slightly correlated with the true classification...
meta-algorithm used in machine learning. Together with Yoav Freund
Yoav Freund
Yoav Freund is a researcher and professor at the University of California, San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications.From his homepage:...
, he invented the AdaBoost
AdaBoost
AdaBoost, short for Adaptive Boosting, is a machine learning algorithm, formulated by Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire. It is a meta-algorithm, and can be used in conjunction with many other learning algorithms to improve their performance. AdaBoost is adaptive in the sense that subsequent...
algorithm in 1996. He received the Gödel prize
Gödel Prize
The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...
in 2003 for his work on AdaBoost with Yoav Freund
Yoav Freund
Yoav Freund is a researcher and professor at the University of California, San Diego who mainly works on machine learning, probability theory and related fields and applications.From his homepage:...
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