arXiv Machine Learning

Robust XGBoosting for Regression

arXiv:2608. 13590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: XGBoost is a very popular and powerful method for prediction.

arXiv Machine Learning
1d 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
Jul 27

Smart predict-then-robustly-optimize

arXiv:2607. 21773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we propose and study a robust variant of the smart predict-then-optimize approach that accounts for prediction shifts due to disturbance in the covariate feature space.

By Aakil Caunhye, Xuefei Lu, Belen Martin-Barragan
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Beyond Noise: A Hypothesis Testing Approach to Robust Feature Selection

arXiv:2511. 20851v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Feature selection remains difficult in modern high-dimensional settings, and established methods such as Boruta and Recursive Feature Elimination are either computationally costly or lack a statistically justified stopping criterion for their importance scores.

By Mousam Sinha, Tirtha Sarathi Ghosh, Koushik Biswas, Ridam Pal