Boosting Foundations and Algorithms

• Main Author: Schapire, Robert E. (auth)
• Other Authors: Freund, Yoav (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2012
• Series: Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series
• Subjects: Algorithms & data structures; Machine learning; Artificial intelligence; Algorithms and data structures
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An accessible introduction and essential reference for an approach to machine learning that creates highly accurate prediction rules by combining many weak and inaccurate ones. Boosting is an approach to machine learning based on the idea of creating a highly accurate predictor by combining many wea...