Researcher

Robert E. Schapire

Robert E. Schapire researches machine learning and boosting. His work includes foundational studies of weak learnability and online learning. Schapire published The Strength of Weak Learnability in Machine Learning in 1990. With Yoav Freund, he co-authored A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting. The paper appeared in the 1997 Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Schapire and Freund published Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms with MIT Press in 2012. His research also includes contextual-bandit learning and analysis of boosting methods.

Now at
Microsoft
Works
245
Citations
108,995
h-index
75

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 1990

    Weak learnability

    Schapire published The Strength of Weak Learnability in Machine Learning in 1990.

  2. 1997

    Online learning and boosting

    With Yoav Freund, he co-authored A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting. The paper appeared in the 1997 Journal of Computer and System Sciences.

  3. 2012

    A shared boosting textbook

    Schapire and Freund published Boosting: Foundations and Algorithms with MIT Press in 2012. His research also includes contextual-bandit learning and analysis of boosting methods.

Sources and credits

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  1. Publication list rob.schapire.net. Checked 13 October 2026.