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The deadline date for proposal applications is Friday 19th March 2021.
Discuss your ideas with the project mentor and send your final proposal to Lorraine Chapman.
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Project Description
Gradient boosting can be used to improve the classification performance of decision trees. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_boosting for a general discussion. Gradient boosting decision trees can also be used for regression (predicting a continuous value). The objective of this project is to implement an ECL Bundle for the Machine Learning Library that employs gradient boosted decision trees.
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