Learning multiple tasks with boosted decision trees

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7523 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2012, Pages 681-696

  Faddoul, Jean Baptiste ^b   Chidlovskii, Boris ^a   Gilleron, Rémi ^b   Torre, Fabien ^b  

^a Xerox Research Center Europe   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Boosting; decision trees; information gain; Multi Task Learning

Indexed keywords

BOOSTED DECISION TREES; BOOSTING; DATA SETS; DECISION RULES; DECISION TREE LEARNING; INFORMATION GAIN; MULTIPLE TASKS; MULTITASK LEARNING; NOVEL CRITERION; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; SPAM FILTERING; TASK RELATEDNESS; TREE CONSTRUCTION; WEAK CLASSIFIERS; WEAK LEARNER;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84866878351     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33460-3_49     Document Type: Conference Paper

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