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AdaBoost, short for "Adaptive Boosting", is a machine learning meta-algorithm formulated by Yoav Freund and Robert Schapire who won the prestigious "Gödel Prize" in 2003 for their work. It can be used in conjunction with many other learning algorithms to improve their performance. AdaBoost is adaptive in the sense that subsequent classifiers built are tweaked in favor of those instances misclassified by previous classifiers. AdaBoost is sensitive to noisy data and outliers. In some problems, however, it can be less susceptible to the overfitting problem than most learning algorithms suffer from. The classifiers it uses can be weak (i.e., display a substantial error rate), but as long as their performance is slightly better than random (i.e. their error rate is smaller than 0.5 for binary classification), they will improve the final model. Even classifiers with an error rate higher than would be expected from a random classifier will be useful, since they will have negative coefficients in the final linear combination of classifiers and hence behave like their inverses.

AdaBoost generates and calls a new weak classifier in each of a series of rounds $t=1,\dots ,T$. For each call, a distribution of weights $D_t$ is updated that indicates the importance of examples in the data set for the classification. On each round, the weights of each incorrectly classified example are increased, and the weights of each correctly classified example are decreased, so the new classifier focuses on the examples which have so far eluded correct classification.

The algorithm for the binary classification task

Given:

• training set: $(x_1,y_1),\dots ,(x_m,y_m)$ where $x_i\in X,y_i\in Y=\{-1,+1\}$
• number of iterations $T$

For $i=1,\dots ,m$:

• Initialize $D_1(i)=\frac{1}{m},$

For $t=1,\dots ,T$:

• From the family of weak classifiers ℋ, find the classifier $h_t$ that maximizes the absolute value of the difference of the corresponding weighted error rate ${ϵ}_t$ and 0.5 with respect to the distribution $D_t$:

$h_t=\underset{h_t\in \mathcal{\mathscr{H}}}{\mathrm{argmax}}|0.5-{ϵ}_t|$

where ${ϵ}_t=\sum _{i=1}^m{D}_t(i)I(y_i\ne h_t(x_i))$. (I is the indicator function)

• If $|0.5-{ϵ}_t|\le \beta$, where $\beta$ is a previously chosen threshold, then stop.
• Choose ${\alpha }_t\in \mathbb{ℝ}$, typically ${\alpha }_t=\frac{1}{2}\text{<mrow data-mjx-texclass="ORD">ln</mrow>}\frac{1-{ϵ}_t}{{ϵ}_t}$.
• For $i=1,\dots ,m$:

Update $D_{t+1}(i)=\frac{D_t(i)\exp ({\alpha }_t(2I(y_i\ne h_t(x_i))-1))}{Denom},$

where the denominator, $Denom$, is the normalization factor ensuring that $D_{t+1}$ will be a probability distribution.

Output the final classifier:

$H(x)=\text{<mrow data-mjx-texclass="ORD">sign</mrow>}(\sum _{t=1}^T{\alpha }_t{h}_t(x))$

Thus, after selecting an optimal classifier $h_t$ for the distribution $D_t$, the examples $x_i$ that the classifier $h_t$ identified correctly are weighted less and those that it identified incorrectly are weighted more. Therefore, when the algorithm is testing the classifiers on the distribution $D_{t+1}$, it will select a classifier that better identifies those examples that the previous classifier missed.

Statistical understanding of boosting

Boosting can be seen as minimization of a convex loss function over a convex set of functions. Specifically, the loss being minimized is the exponential loss

$\sum _i{e}^{-y_{i}f(x_i)}$

and we are seeking a function

$f(x)=\sum _t{\alpha }_t{h}_t(x)$

See also

• Bootstrap aggregating
• LPBoost
• Gradient boosting

References

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Implementations

• AdaBoost and the Super Bowl of Classifiers - A Tutorial on AdaBoost.
• Adaboost in C++, an implementation of Adaboost in C++ and boost by Antonio Gulli
• icsiboost, an open source implementation of Boostexter
• JBoost, a site offering a classification and visualization package, implementing AdaBoost among other boosting algorithms.
• MATLAB AdaBoost toolbox. Includes Real AdaBoost, Gentle AdaBoost and Modest AdaBoost implementations.
• A Matlab Implementation of AdaBoost
• Multi-threaded MATLAB-compatible implementation of Boosted Trees
• milk for Python implements AdaBoost.
• MPBoost++, a C++ implementation of the original AdaBoost.MH algorithm and of an improved variant, the MPBoost algorithm.
• multiboost, a fast C++ implementation of multi-class/multi-label/multi-task boosting algorithms. It is based on AdaBoost.MH but also implements popular cascade classifiers and FilterBoost along with a batch of common multi-class base learners (stumps, trees, products, Haar filters).
• NPatternRecognizer , a fast machine learning algorithm library written in C#. It contains support vector machine, neural networks, bayes, boost, k-nearest neighbor, decision tree, ..., etc.
• OpenCV implementation of several boosting variants
• Into contains open source implementations of many AdaBoost and FloatBoost variants in C++.
• Mallet Java implementation.
• adabag adabag: An R package for binary and multiclass Boosting and Bagging.
• Scikit-learn Python implementation.

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