A brief introduction to boosting

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 1999, Pages 1401-1406

  Schapire, Robert E ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOSTING ALGORITHM; GENERAL METHOD; OVERFITTING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING;

EID: 84880692052     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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