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Leo Breiman

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Breiman changed machine learning by insisting that predictive performance and real data should guide statistical practice. He co-created classification and regression trees, introduced bagging and developed random forests, an ensemble of decision trees that remains a standard method for tabular data.

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Background

Previously
Until 2005Professor of Statistics,
Lifespan1928–2005
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 10, 2026