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Boosting: 1. What Is The Difference Between Adaboost and Gradient Boosting?

AdaBoost and gradient boosting are both ensemble methods that combine weak learners to produce strong learners. AdaBoost focuses on voting weights while gradient boosting focuses on minimizing loss functions through gradient descent. Gradient boosting builds learners sequentially to minimize the loss from the previous iteration, calculating gradients of the loss function. AdaBoost assigns weights to training examples based on misclassifications, increasing the probability misclassified examples are selected in subsequent training sets.

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Boosting: 1. What Is The Difference Between Adaboost and Gradient Boosting?

AdaBoost and gradient boosting are both ensemble methods that combine weak learners to produce strong learners. AdaBoost focuses on voting weights while gradient boosting focuses on minimizing loss functions through gradient descent. Gradient boosting builds learners sequentially to minimize the loss from the previous iteration, calculating gradients of the loss function. AdaBoost assigns weights to training examples based on misclassifications, increasing the probability misclassified examples are selected in subsequent training sets.

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Boosting

1. What is the difference between AdaBoost and Gradient Boosting?


AdaBoost vs. Gradient Boosting:

AdaBoost Gradient Boosting

Adaboost is more about ‘voting Gradient boosting is more about “adding


weights’ gradient optimization”.

Gradient boosting increases the accuracy by


Adaboost increases the accuracy by minimizing the Loss Function (an error which
giving more weightage to the target is the difference of actual and predicted value)
which is misclassified by the model. and having this loss as a target for the next
iteration.

- Gradient boosting calculates the gradient


(derivative) of the Loss Function with respect
to the prediction (instead of the features).
At each iteration, the Adaptive
- The Gradient boosting algorithm builds the
boosting algorithm changes the
first weak learner and calculates the Loss
sample distribution by modifying the
Function.
weights attached to each of the
instances. - It then builds a second learner to predict the
loss after the first step. The step continues for
the third learner and then for the fourth learner
and so on until a certain threshold is reached.

  
2. When to apply AdaBoost (Adaptive Boosting Algorithm)?
Here is the list of all the key points below for an understanding of Adaboost:
 AdaBoost can be applied to any classification algorithm, so it’s really a
technique that builds on top of other classifiers as opposed to being a classifier
itself.
 You could just train a bunch of weak classifiers on your own and combine the
results.
 There’s really two things it figures out for you:
o It helps you choose the training set for each new classifier that you train
based on the results of the previous classifier.
o It determines how much weight should be given to each classifier’s
proposed answer when combining the results.
3. How does AdaBoost (Adaptive Boosting Algorithm) work?
Important Points regarding working of Adaboost:
 AdaBoost can be applied to any classification algorithm, so it’s really a
technique that builds on top of other classifiers as opposed to being a classifier
itself.
 Each weak classifier should be trained on a random subset of the total training
set.
 AdaBoost assigns a “weight” to each training example, which determines the
probability that each example should appear in the training set.
o g. (The initial weights generally add up to 1. for example: if there are 8
training examples, the weight assigned to each will be 1/8 initially. So all
training examples are having equal weights.)
 Now, if a training example is misclassified, then that training example is assigned
a higher weight so that the probability of appearing that particular misclassified
training example is higher in the next training set for training the classifier.
 So, after performing the previous step, hopefully, the trained classifier will
perform better on the misclassified examples next time.
 So the weights are based on increasing the probability of being chosen in
the next sequential training sub-set.

4. How to install the XGBoost library in Windows or Mac operations systems?


For Windows, run the following command in your Jupyter notebook:
!pip install xgboost
For Mac, run the following command in your terminal:
conda install -c conda-forge xgboost
Note: Open a new terminal before using the above command in the Mac terminal. To
open the terminal, please open the Launchpad and then click on the terminal icon.
 
5. I am getting the below warning while fitting XGBoost Classifier

WARNING: Starting in XGBoost 1.3.0, the default evaluation metric


used with the objective 'binary:logistic' was changed from
'error' to 'logloss'. Explicitly set eval_metric if you'd like to
restore the old behavior.
How to solve it?
To remove the warning kindly try setting the eval_metric hyperparameter as 'logloss', as
shown below:
xgb = XGBClassifier(eval_metric='logloss

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