Lior Wolf
Lior Wolf is a computer-vision and AI researcher at Tel Aviv University. Wolf did doctoral work with Amnon Shashua at Hebrew University and postdoctoral work with Tomaso Poggio at MIT. His coauthored research includes kernel learning over sets, biologically inspired object recognition, face-recognition methods and visual analysis of historical documents. His recent work includes language-model decoding. As of October 2026, he is a faculty member in Tel Aviv’s School of Computer Science and AI.
- Now at
- Tel Aviv University
- Works
- 516
- Citations
- 28,442
- h-index
- 66
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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Doctoral and postdoctoral period
Hebrew University and MIT
Wolf did doctoral work under Amnon Shashua at Hebrew University and later postdoctoral work with Tomaso Poggio at MIT.
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2003–2007
Learning and visual recognition
Wolf coauthored a 2003 kernel-learning paper with Shashua and shared 2007 work on cortex-inspired object recognition. These link mathematical representations with visual-recognition systems.
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2008–2009
Faces and historical documents
Wolf worked on face descriptors and similarity kernels, and on 2009 research identifying candidate joins in Cairo Genizah fragments. The latter is a specific use of visual analysis in the digital humanities.
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2026
Vision and language-model research
His shared 2026 work includes speculative decoding and discrete-diffusion language-model decoding; he is a faculty member at Tel Aviv.
Sources and credits
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