The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning

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by rudyl313 • 14 years ago

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I found this very cool! I clicked on the article thinking it would be about crowdsourcing, but it's actually about a cool machine learning technique I didn't know about. Plus, it was very well explained. Thanks for writing it!

dave_sullivan• 14 years ago

Ensemble learning is indeed a powerful tool--more than just the sum of its parts.

This is a cool ranking that lists various learning algos and how they do on MNIST (which may or my not be a good benchmark for what you're doing). Links to the corresponding papers are provided, including a few ensemble methods (committees), which tend to perform rather well. http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

rudyl313• 14 years ago

Very cool! Thanks for sharing that

jmount• 14 years ago

Our group's review of a book on Ensemble Methods: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2011/07/book-review-ensemble-...

b0b0b0b• 14 years ago

The title was groan inducing, but the article has introduced me to rotation forests. Thanks!

The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning

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