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SelfieBoost: A Boosting Algorithm for Deep Learning

Machine Learning 2017-04-11 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

We describe and analyze a new boosting algorithm for deep learning called SelfieBoost. Unlike other boosting algorithms, like AdaBoost, which construct ensembles of classifiers, SelfieBoost boosts the accuracy of a single network. We prove a log(1/ϵ)\log(1/\epsilon) convergence rate for SelfieBoost under some "SGD success" assumption which seems to hold in practice.

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@article{arxiv.1411.3436,
  title  = {SelfieBoost: A Boosting Algorithm for Deep Learning},
  author = {Shai Shalev-Shwartz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.3436},
  year   = {2017}
}
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