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I'm looking for resources or implementation on n-ary Gentle Boost classifiers.

I've seen a number of Adaboost implementations, an implementation for GentleBoost in Matlab's Ensemble, but it always seems to be binary.

WEKA, too, has only an AdaBoost implementation, not Gentle Boost.

Does anyone have any suggestions of - how to go about getting a n-ary Gentle Boost implementation? - how long approximately it would take to build one if it isn't there already?

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There is a package written in R language, named ada, which also has Gentle Boosting: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ada/index.html

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Indeed, it is only for binary classification:

ada is used to fit a variety stochastic boosting models for a binary response as described in Additive Logistic Regression: A Statistical View of Boosting by Friedman, et al. (2000).

Vitaly Olegovitch
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  • I'm looking through this, but it seems to cater only to binary classification again, or am I missing out where it can offer n-ary classification? – user961627 Sep 30 '13 at 19:34