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The Boosting Approach to Machine Learning: An Overview

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Nonlinear Estimation and Classification

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Statistics ((LNS,volume 171))

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Boosting is a general method for improving the accuracy of any given learning algorithm. Focusing primarily on the AdaBoost algorithm, this chapter overviews some of the recent work on boosting including analyses of AdaBoost’s training error and generalization error; boosting’s connection to game theory and linear programming; the relationship between boosting and logistic regression; extensions of AdaBoost for multiclass classification problems; methods of incorporating human knowledge into boosting; and experimental and applied work using boosting.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, 180 Queen’s Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK

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    Bin Yu

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Schapire, R.E. (2003). The Boosting Approach to Machine Learning: An Overview. In: Denison, D.D., Hansen, M.H., Holmes, C.C., Mallick, B., Yu, B. (eds) Nonlinear Estimation and Classification. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 171. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21579-2_9

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