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boosting  

Definition

  • An ensemble meta-algorithm for primarily reducing bias and also variance in supervised learning and a family of machine learning algorithms that convert weak learners to strong ones. (Wikipedia)

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  • Boosting is a machine learning (ML) method that has been well studied in the ML community (Freund 1995; Freund and Schapire 1997; Collins et al. (Xiao, Zhu, Zhu & Wang, 2010)
  • Empirical results for boosting have shown that in practice the method is highly effective. (Walker, Rambow & Rogati, 2001)

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