AN OPTIMAL BOOSTING ALGORITHM BASED ON NONLINEAR CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD

Abstract

ABSTRACT. Boosting, one of the most successful algorithms for supervised learning, searches the most accurate weighted sum of weak classifiers. The search corresponds to a convex programming with non-negativity and affine constraint. In this article, we propose a novel Conjugate Gradient algorithm with the Modified Polak-Ribiera-Polyak conjugate direction. The convergence of the algorithm is proved and we report its successful applications to boosting.