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Unlock: Gradient Boosting

Gradient boosting as functional gradient descent: fit weak learners to pseudo-residuals sequentially, reducing bias at each round. Covers AdaBoost, shrinkage, XGBoost second-order methods, and LightGBM leaf-wise growth.

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Gradient BoostingTARGET
McDiarmid's InequalityAdvancedWEAKEST
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Sub-Exponential Random VariablesCore
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Sub-Gaussian Random VariablesCore
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Symmetrization InequalityAdvanced
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VC DimensionCore
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Contraction InequalityAdvanced
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Gradient Descent VariantsFoundations
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The Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman)Infrastructure
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AdaBoostCore
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Decision Trees and EnsemblesCore
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Cubist and Model TreesCore
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