Presentations:




Talks presented at the "turnkey algorithms for improving generalizers" workshop at NIPS 98, Friday, Dec. 4, 1998.

Morning Session:
Linear and order statistics combiners for classification Kagan Tumer
Is boosting a universal learning algorithm? Yoav Freund
Error-correcting output coding: current results Thomas Dietterich
Using adaptive bagging to debias predictors Leo Breiman
Afternoon Session:
The ubiquitous role of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces in machine learning: Regularization, Bayes estimates, Support Vector Machines, Graphical Models, Mean Field Theory Grace Wahba
High-rise generalisation: what will we find in the penthouse? Chris Thornton
Some extensions of bagging Tom Heskes
An application of monte-carlo cross-validation (or bagging without replacement") for predicting website visitor preferences. Mark Plutowski
We still don't know why model ensembles work. Pedro Domingos



If you have any questions or comments, please email Kagan Tumer.

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