Sidney Markowitz wrote: > Fred wrote: >> There was similar work being done in the past to identify rules to be >> grouped into new meta rules, this (w|c)ould achieve similar results. >> http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363 > > I think I'm missing something here. Are you saying that automatically > grouping rules into meta rules that have similar classification > properties is equivalent to boosting? Or do you mean that it is > another approach that also can improve performance of weak learners? > > In any case, you have given me an idea for the microarray gene > expression problem, so thanks! :-) > > -- sidney
Not that it's equivalent, just that it might produce a similar effect. I think it's another approach that can improve performance of weak learners. But it might cause some rules to become weaker due to how the overall scoring is done. At least that's how I understand it. Frederic Tarasevicius
