Summary of Sample-efficient Agnostic Boosting, by Udaya Ghai and Karan Singh
Sample-Efficient Agnostic Boosting
by Udaya Ghai, Karan Singh
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a framework for combining weak learning algorithms into a strong learner through the theory of boosting. Boosting allows for the creation of accurate models from marginally better-than-random predictors, and in the realizable case, it achieves the same sample complexity as Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM), a computationally demanding approach. This finding highlights the potential for boosting to provide computational relief without sacrificing sample efficiency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Boosting is like combining small pieces of information into a bigger picture. It takes lots of weak learning algorithms and turns them into one strong learner. The interesting thing is that when we use this method, it uses the same amount of data as another method called Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM), but it’s way faster to calculate. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Boosting
