Bagging Regularizes

Intuitively, we expect that averaging --- or bagging --- different regressors with low correlation should smooth their behavior and be somewhat similar to regularization. In this note we make this intuition precise. Using an almost classical definition of stability, we prove that a certain form...

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Main Authors: Poggio, Tomaso, Rifkin, Ryan, Mukherjee, Sayan, Rakhlin, Alex
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7268