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Adaptive Base Class Boost for Multi-class Classification

Machine Learning 2008-11-11 v1 Information Retrieval

Abstract

We develop the concept of ABC-Boost (Adaptive Base Class Boost) for multi-class classification and present ABC-MART, a concrete implementation of ABC-Boost. The original MART (Multiple Additive Regression Trees) algorithm has been very successful in large-scale applications. For binary classification, ABC-MART recovers MART. For multi-class classification, ABC-MART considerably improves MART, as evaluated on several public data sets.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1250,
  title  = {Adaptive Base Class Boost for Multi-class Classification},
  author = {Ping Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1250},
  year   = {2008}
}
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