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Gradient Boosting

Gradient Boosting is an ensemble learning method, formalised by Jerome H. Friedman in 2001, that combines a sequence of weak learners — typically shallow decision trees — so that each new tree is fitted to minimise the residual errors of the trees before it. It is the core algorithm behind popular implementations such as XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost.

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Gradient Boosting Machine (Friedman's Gradient Boosting)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Friedman, J. H. (2001). Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine. Annals of Statistics, 29(5), 1189–1232. · DOI 10.1214/aos/1013203451
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Same method familyDecision Treemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyLightGBMmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.See alsoLogistic Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRandom Forestmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyXGBoostmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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