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This paper presents the AdaBoost algorithm that provides for the imprecision in the calculation of weights. In our approach the obtained values of weights are changed within a certain range of values. This range represents the uncertainty of the calculation of the weight of each element of the learning set. In our study we use the boosting by the reweighting method where each weak classifier is based on the recursive partitioning method. A number of experiments have been carried out on eight data sets available in the UCI repository and on two randomly generated data sets. The obtained results are compared with the original AdaBoost algorithm using appropriate statistical tests.
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Burduk, R. (2014). The AdaBoost Algorithm with the Imprecision Determine the Weights of the Observations. In: Nguyen, N.T., Attachoo, B., Trawiński, B., Somboonviwat, K. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8398. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05458-2_12
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