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Activity Number: 354
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #308217
Title: Greedy Methods, Weak Learning, and L1 Optimization
Author(s): Tong Zhang*+
Companies: Yahoo! Inc.
Address: 135 Oakland Avenue, Tuckahoe, NY, 10707,
Keywords: boosting ; greedy algorithm ; L1 regularization
Abstract:

I will give a summary of some numerical convergence results for boosting algorithms from greedy optimization perspective and its approximation using weak learning. I will also discuss the relationship to L1 regularization and compare greedy methods to other L1 optimization techniques.


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