1. An Efficient AdaBoost Algorithm with the Multiple Thresholds Classification.
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Ding, Yi, Zhu, Hongyang, Chen, Ruyun, and Li, Ronghui
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MACHINE learning ,ALGORITHMS ,PLURALITY voting ,CLASSIFICATION - Abstract
Featured Application: A new Weak Learn algorithm which classifies examples is proposed based on multiple thresholds. The weight assigning scheme of the Weak Learn algorithm is changed correspondingly for the AdaBoost algorithm in this paper. Theoretical identification is provided to show the superiority. Experimental studies are also presented to verify the effectiveness of the method. Adaptive boost (AdaBoost) is a prominent example of an ensemble learning algorithm that combines weak classifiers into strong classifiers through weighted majority voting rules. AdaBoost's weak classifier, with threshold classification, tries to find the best threshold in one of the data dimensions, dividing the data into two categories-1 and 1. However, in some cases, this Weak Learning algorithm is not accurate enough, showing poor generalization performance and a tendency to over-fit. To solve these challenges, we first propose a new Weak Learning algorithm that classifies examples based on multiple thresholds, rather than only one, to improve its accuracy. Second, in this paper, we make changes to the weight allocation scheme of the Weak Learning algorithm based on the AdaBoost algorithm to use potential values of other dimensions in the classification process, while the theoretical identification is provided to show its generality. Finally, comparative experiments between the two algorithms on 18 datasets on UCI show that our improved AdaBoost algorithm has a better generalization effect in the test set during the training iteration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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