A gradient-based boosting algorithm for regression problems

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages

  Zemel, Richard S ^a   Pitassi, Toniann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; BOOSTING ALGORITHM; GRADIENT BASED; GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHMS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; REGRESSION METHOD; REGRESSION PROBLEM; TRAINING ERRORS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84898985725     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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