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Ensemble Learning

Ensemble learning combines several models so that their individual errors cancel out, usually beating any single one. Bagging trains models independently and averages them, as random forests do; boosting trains them in sequence, each fixing the last one's mistakes. For tabular data these methods still often beat deep learning, at lower cost and with less tuning.

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BaggingBoostingStackingRandom forestVariance reduction

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