Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Boosting with AdaBoost

As an example of the boosting method, we will instantiate an object of the AdaBoostClassifier type of the scikit-learn library, which provides us with the implementation of the AdaBoost algorithm; as a base estimator, we will also use an instance of the DecisionTreeClassifier class in this example and set the number of base estimators with the n_estimators parameter:

from sklearn.tree import DecisionTreeClassifierfrom sklearn.ensemble import AdaBoostClassifieradaboost = AdaBoostClassifier(              DecisionTreeClassifier(),              n_estimators=300           )

Another widely used boosting algorithm is the gradient boosting algorithm. To understand the characteristics of the gradient boosting algorithm, we must first introduce the concept of the ...