Description: Jerry Friedman's MART algorithm has had considerable influence in search applications and other classification tasks. We introduce a new category of classification algorithms: Adaptive Base Class Boost (ABC-Boost). The talk will present a particular implementation of ABC-Boost called ABC-MART, a combination of ABC-Boost with MART. Extensive experiments demonstrate surprising improvements. From a coding perspective, the change is really easy to implement (involving just a few lines of code).
Speaker(s):
Ping Li, Ph.D., assistant professor, Cornell
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