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Behavior of linear L2-boosting algorithms in the vanishing learning rate asymptotic

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We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of gradient boosting algorithms when the learning rate converges to zero and the number of iterations is rescaled accordingly. We mostly consider $L^2$-boosting for regression with linear base learner as studied in \cite{BY03} and analyze also a stochastic version of the model where subsampling is used at each step \citep{F02}. We prove a deterministic limit in the vanishing learning rate asymptotic and characterize the limit as the unique solution of a linear differential equation in an infinite dimensional function space. Besides, the training and test error of the limiting procedure are thoroughly analyzed. We finally illustrate and discuss our result with a simple numerical experiment where linear $L^2$-boosting predictor is interpreted as a smoothed projection where time is related to the degrees of freedom of the linear boosting operator.
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hal-03078992 , version 1 (20-12-2020)

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Clément Dombry, Youssef Esstafa. Behavior of linear L2-boosting algorithms in the vanishing learning rate asymptotic. 2020. ⟨hal-03078992⟩
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