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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

Multiclass Boosting Algorithms for Shrinkage Estimators of Class Probability

Takafumi KANAMORI

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Our purpose is to estimate conditional probabilities of output labels in multiclass classification problems. Adaboost provides highly accurate classifiers and has potential to estimate conditional probabilities. However, the conditional probability estimated by Adaboost tends to overfit to training samples. We propose loss functions for boosting that provide shrinkage estimator. The effect of regularization is realized by shrinkage of probabilities toward the uniform distribution. Numerical experiments indicate that boosting algorithms based on proposed loss functions show significantly better results than existing boosting algorithms for estimation of conditional probabilities.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E90-D No.12 pp.2033-2042
Publication Date
2007/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.12.2033
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

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