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Tree Based Ensemble Models Regularization by Convex Optimization

Tree Based Ensemble Models Regularization by Convex Optimization

This video was recorded at NIPS Workshops, Whistler 2009. Tree based ensemble methods can be seen as a way to learn a kernel from a sample of input-output pairs. This paper proposes a regularization framework to incorporate non-standard information not used in the kernel learning algorithm, so as to take advantage of incomplete information about output values and/or of some prior information about the problem at hand. To this end a generic convex optimization problem is formulated which is first customized into a manifold regularization approach for semi-supervised learning, then as a way to exploit censored output values, and finally as a generic way to exploit prior information about the problem.

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