The use of ensemble models in many problem domains has increased significantly in the last few years. The ensemble modeling, in particularly boosting, has shown a great promise in improving predictive performance of a model. Combining the ensemble members is normally done in a co–operative fashion where each of the ensemble members performs the same task and their predictions are aggregated to ...

The boosting algorithm AdaBoost de veloped by Freund and Schapire has ex hibited outstanding performance on sev eral benchmark problems when using C as the weak algorithm to be boosted Like other ensemble learning approaches AdaBoost constructs a composite hy pothesis by voting many individual hy potheses In practice the large amount of memory required to store these hypotheses can make ensembl...

Arabic speech recognition suffers from the scarcity of properly labeled data. In this project, we introduce a pipeline that performs semi-supervised segmentation of audio then— after hand-labeling a small dataset—feeds labeled segments to a supervised learning framework to select, through many rounds of hyperparameter optimization, an ensemble of models to infer labels for a larger dataset; usi...

Boosting is a popular ensemble algorithm that generates more powerful learners by linearly combining base models from a simpler hypothesis class. In this work, we investigate the problem of adapting batch gradient boosting for minimizing convex loss functions to online setting where the loss at each iteration is i.i.d sampled from an unknown distribution. To generalize from batch to online, we ...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In this article we address the issue of generating diversified translation systems from a single Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) engine for system combination. Unlike traditional approaches, we do not resort to multiple structurally different SMT systems, but instead directly learn a strong SMT system from a single translation engine in a principled w...

In this paper we present a new ensemble method, called Boosted Residual Networks, which builds an ensemble of Residual Networks by growing the member network at each round of boosting. The proposed approach combines recent developements in Residual Networks a method for creating very deep networks by including a shortcut layer between different groups of layers with the Deep Incremental Boostin...

It is widely recognized that knowledge discovery and data mining in the health domain are two techniques than scientists and researchers are always looking into areas for improvements and accurateness in prediction. In this paper, we present a multi-tier knowledge acquisition, amalgamation and learning info-structure for the learning of rules that have been generated from medical datasets compr...

In this paper we propose a novel approach for ensemble construction based on the use of nonlinear projections to achieve both accuracy and diversity of individual classifiers. The proposed approach combines the philosophy of boosting, putting more effort on difficult instances, with the basis of the random subspace method. Our main contribution is that instead of using a random subspace, we con...

Following the explosive growth in chemical and biological data, the shift from traditional methods of drug discovery to computer-aided means has made data mining and machine learning methods integral parts of today's drug discovery process. In this paper, extreme gradient boosting (Xgboost), which is an ensemble of Classification and Regression Tree (CART) and a variant of the Gradient Boosting...

Ensemble methods such as bagging and boosting have been successfully applied to classification problems. Two important issues associated with an ensemble approach are: how to generate models to construct an ensemble, and how to combine them for classification. In this paper, we focus on the problem of model generation for heterogeneous data classification. If we could partition heterogeneous da...