Data Classification

Chapter 19

Ensemble Learning

Yaliang Li

State University of New York at BuffaloBuffalo, NY [e-mail]

Jing Gao

State University of New York at BuffaloBuffalo, NY [e-mail]

Qi Li

State University of New York at BuffaloBuffalo, NY [e-mail]

Wei Fan

Huawei Noah’s Ark LabHong Kong [e-mail]

19.1 Introduction

People have known the benefits of combining information from multiple sources since a long time ago. From the old story of “blind men and an elephant,” we can learn the importance of capturing a big picture instead of focusing on one single perspective. In the story, a group of blind men touch different parts of an elephant to learn what it is like. Each of them makes a judgment about the elephant based ...