arXiv Machine Learning

Parallel gradient boosting for flexible estimation of conditional distributions

arXiv:2607. 13550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Boosting is one of the most successful learning techniques for standard classification and regression tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Convolution Smoothed Quantile Regression for XGBoost

arXiv:2608. 15290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The increasing availability of large and complex datasets across many scientific disciplines has led to widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) for prediction.

By Mandy Yao (University of Toronto), Meredith Franklin (University of Toronto)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Learning from a Biased Sample

arXiv:2209. 01754v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The empirical risk minimization approach to data-driven decision making requires access to training data drawn under the same conditions as those that will be faced when the decision rule is deployed.

By Roshni Sahoo, Lihua Lei, Stefan Wager