Theoretical and experimental analyses of bagging indicate that it is primarily a variance reduction technique. This suggests that bagging should be applied to learning algorithms tuned to minimize bias, even at the cost of some increase in variance. We test this idea with Support Vector Machines (SVMs) by employing out-of-bag estimates of bias and variance to tune the SVMs. Experiments indicate...

The ecological niche is the set of environments in which a population of a species can persist without introduction of individuals from other locations. A good mathematical or computational representation of the niche is a prerequisite to addressing many questions in ecology, biogeography, evolutionary biology and conservation. A particularly challenging question for ecological niche modelling ...

Ensemble learning has gained success in machine with major advantages over other methods. Bagging is a prominent ensemble method that creates subgroups of data, known as bags, are trained by individual methods such decision trees. Random forest example bagging additional features the process. Evolutionary algorithms have been for optimisation problems and also used learning. gradient-free work ...

Aiming at the problems of the traditional feature selection methods that threshold filtering loses a lot of effective architectural information and the shortcoming of Bagging algorithm that weaker classifiers of Bagging have the same weights to improve the performance of Chinese architectural document categorization, a new algorithm based on Rough set and Confidence Attribute Bagging is propose...

Pattern recognition systems have been widely used in adversarial classification tasks like spam filtering and intrusion detection in computer networks. In these applications a malicious adversary may successfully mislead a classifier by “poisoning” its training data with carefully designed attacks. Bagging is a well-known ensemble construction method, where each classifier in the ensemble is tr...

The authorship attribution literature demonstrates the difficulty to design classifiers that outperform simple strategies such as linear classifiers operating on bag of features representation of documents. To overcome this difficulty we propose to use Bagging techniques that rely on learning classifiers on different random subsets of features, then to combine their decision by making them vote...

Boosting and Bagging, as two representative approaches to learning classiier committees, have demonstrated great success, especially for decision tree learning. They repeatedly build diierent classiiers using a base learning algorithm by changing the distribution of the training set. Sasc, as a diierent type of committee learning method, can also signiicantly reduce the error rate of decision t...