---
title: "Yoav Freund"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Yoav Freund"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-10T00:00:00.000Z"
connects_to: ["AdaBoost","boosting","Weighted Majority Algorithm","Robert Schapire","2003 Gödel Prize"]
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
seek_code_commit: "b13747c"
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Computer scientist who, with Robert Schapire, introduced AdaBoost in their 1995/97 paper "A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting," for which they shared the 2003 Gödel Prize. Matters to this vault as the pair who took Littlestone & Warmuth's 1989 multiplicative weight-update rule, named their debt to it in print, and adapted it into one of machine learning's most consequential algorithms — the one branch of the vault's "weighted majority" cluster that behaves like a documented lineage rather than an independent reinvention.

## References
- 2026-08-10: AdaBoost's explicit adaptation of the Littlestone-Warmuth weight-update rule, and the 2003 Gödel Prize. ([[claim-adaboost-adapted-littlestone-warmuth-weight-update-rule]])