WRSWorld Research StateContribute
WORLD RESEARCH STATE

Freund and Schapire: decision-theoretic boosting and AdaBoost

Contribution grade

Machine learning · METHOD

Reference score160,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Derived adaptive boosting without advance weak-learner performance knowledge in a general decision-theoretic framework.

Scientific scope

The record is the 1997 Journal of Computer and System Sciences article. Its 1995 extended abstract, Schapire’s earlier boosting result, later margin explanations, gradient boosting and XGBoost remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the 1997 Journal of Computer and System Sciences article. Its 1995 extended abstract, Schapire’s earlier boosting result, later margin explanations, gradient boosting and XGBoost remain separate.

Contributors

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

Full scientific record · Browse contribution grades · Request a correction