Boosting Rong Jin
Inefficiency with Bagging D Bagging … D1 D2 Dk Boostrap Sampling h1 h2 hk Inefficient boostrap sampling: Every example has equal chance to be sampled No distinction between “easy” examples and “difficult” examples Inefficient model combination: A constant weight for each classifier No distinction between accurate classifiers and inaccurate classifiers
Improve the Efficiency of Bagging Better sampling strategy Focus on the examples that are difficult to classify Better combination strategy Accurate model should be assigned larger weights
Intuition + + May overfitting !! Mistakes Classifier3 Classifier2 No training mistakes !! May overfitting !! + Mistakes X1 Y1 + Mistakes X1 Y1 X3 Y3 Training Examples X1 Y1 X2 Y2 X3 Y3 X4 Y4 Pop up note: no mistakes but possible overfitting on training data Road map before boosting Clearify the old works and the proposed methods Less words !!!
AdaBoost Algorithm
AdaBoost Example: t=ln2 x1, y1 x2, y2 x3, y3 x4, y4 x5, y5 1/5 D0: x5, y5 x3, y3 x1, y1 Sample h1 Training x1, y1 x2, y2 x3, y3 x4, y4 x5, y5 Update Weights h1 Sample x3, y3 x1, y1 2/7 1/7 D1: h2 Training x1, y1 x2, y2 x3, y3 x4, y4 x5, y5 h2 Update Weights 2/9 1/9 4/9 D2: Sample …
How To Choose t in AdaBoost? How to construct the best distribution Dt+1(i) Dt+1(i) should be significantly different from Dt(i) Dt+1(i) should create a situation that classifier ht performs poorly
How To Choose t in AdaBoost?
Optimization View for Choosing t ht(x): x{1,-1}; a base (weak) classifier HT(x): a linear combination of basic classifiers Goal: minimize training error Approximate error swith a exponential function
AdaBoost: Greedy Optimization Fix HT-1(x), and solve hT(x) and t
Empirical Study of AdaBoost AdaBoosting decision trees Generate 50 decision trees by AdaBoost Linearly combine decision trees using the weights of AdaBoost In general: AdaBoost = Bagging > C4.5 AdaBoost usually needs less number of classifiers than Bagging
Bia-Variance Tradeoff for AdaBoost AdaBoost can reduce both variance and bias simultaneously variance bias single decision tree Bagging decision tree AdaBoosting decision trees