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Boosting in the presence of noise
Boosting algorithms are procedures that "boost" low-accuracy weak learning algorithms to achieve arbitrarily high accuracy. Over the past decade boosting has been widely...
Adam Kalai, Rocco A. Servedio
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Asymmetric boosting
A cost-sensitive extension of boosting, denoted as asymmetric boosting, is presented. Unlike previous proposals, the new algorithm is derived from sound decision-theoretic princip...
Hamed Masnadi-Shirazi, Nuno Vasconcelos
NIPS
2007
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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...
ICML
2004
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Boosting margin based distance functions for clustering
The performance of graph based clustering methods critically depends on the quality of the distance function, used to compute similarities between pairs of neighboring nodes. In t...
Tomer Hertz, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Daphna Weinshall