The Many Faces of Optimal Weak-to-Strong Learning

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Autori principali: Høgsgaard, Mikael Møller, Larsen, Kasper Green, Mathiasen, Markus Engelund
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Høgsgaard, Mikael Møller
Larsen, Kasper Green
Mathiasen, Markus Engelund
author_facet Høgsgaard, Mikael Møller
Larsen, Kasper Green
Mathiasen, Markus Engelund
contents Boosting is an extremely successful idea, allowing one to combine multiple low accuracy classifiers into a much more accurate voting classifier. In this work, we present a new and surprisingly simple Boosting algorithm that obtains a provably optimal sample complexity. Sample optimal Boosting algorithms have only recently been developed, and our new algorithm has the fastest runtime among all such algorithms and is the simplest to describe: Partition your training data into 5 disjoint pieces of equal size, run AdaBoost on each, and combine the resulting classifiers via a majority vote. In addition to this theoretical contribution, we also perform the first empirical comparison of the proposed sample optimal Boosting algorithms. Our pilot empirical study suggests that our new algorithm might outperform previous algorithms on large data sets.
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spellingShingle The Many Faces of Optimal Weak-to-Strong Learning
Høgsgaard, Mikael Møller
Larsen, Kasper Green
Mathiasen, Markus Engelund
Machine Learning
Data Structures and Algorithms
Boosting is an extremely successful idea, allowing one to combine multiple low accuracy classifiers into a much more accurate voting classifier. In this work, we present a new and surprisingly simple Boosting algorithm that obtains a provably optimal sample complexity. Sample optimal Boosting algorithms have only recently been developed, and our new algorithm has the fastest runtime among all such algorithms and is the simplest to describe: Partition your training data into 5 disjoint pieces of equal size, run AdaBoost on each, and combine the resulting classifiers via a majority vote. In addition to this theoretical contribution, we also perform the first empirical comparison of the proposed sample optimal Boosting algorithms. Our pilot empirical study suggests that our new algorithm might outperform previous algorithms on large data sets.
title The Many Faces of Optimal Weak-to-Strong Learning
topic Machine Learning
Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.17148