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JMLR
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
Evidence Contrary to the Statistical View of Boosting
The statistical perspective on boosting algorithms focuses on optimization, drawing parallels with maximum likelihood estimation for logistic regression. In this paper we present ...
David Mease, Abraham Wyner
NIPS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
ISNN
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Internet Traffic Prediction by W-Boost: Classification and Regression
Abstract. Internet traffic prediction plays a fundamental role in network design, management, control, and optimization. The self-similar and non-linear nature of network traffic m...
Hanghang Tong, Chongrong Li, Jingrui He, Yang Chen
ECML
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Combining Bias and Variance Reduction Techniques for Regression Trees
Gradient Boosting and bagging applied to regressors can reduce the error due to bias and variance respectively. Alternatively, Stochastic Gradient Boosting (SGB) and Iterated Baggi...
Yuk Lai Suen, Prem Melville, Raymond J. Mooney
ALT
2006
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Smooth Boosting Using an Information-Based Criterion
Abstract. Smooth boosting algorithms are variants of boosting methods which handle only smooth distributions on the data. They are proved to be noise-tolerant and can be used in th...
Kohei Hatano