AdaBoost, Step-by-Step

An Introduction to Boosting and AdaBoost

AdaBoost— Image by the author

AdaBoost belongs to the ensemble learning methods and imitates the principle of the “Wisdom of the Crowds”: models that individually show poor performance can form a strong model when combined.

A MIT study [Diz21] published in 2021 describes how crowds are able to identify fake news. Without background knowledge or fact-checking…