Monday, June 3, 2013

1305.7248 (Justin Stevens et al.)

uBoost: A boosting method for producing uniform selection efficiencies
from multivariate classifiers
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Justin Stevens, Mike Williams
The use of multivariate classifiers, especially neural networks and decision trees, has become commonplace in particle physics. Typically, a series of classifiers is trained rather than just one to enhance the performance; this is known as boosting. This paper presents a novel method of boosting that produces a uniform selection efficiency in a user-defined multivariate space. Such a technique is ideally suited for amplitude analyses or other situations where optimizing a single integrated figure of merit is not what is desired.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.7248

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