High Boosting Question 169 of 223

How do row sampling and column sampling regularize boosting?

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Simple meaning

Subsampling rows each round, as in stochastic gradient boosting, makes trees less correlated and faster.

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STEPS — What happens step by step?

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1
Subsampling rows each round,
as in stochastic gradient boosting, makes trees less correlated and faster.
2
Column sampling, like colsample_bytree,
stops the model from always splitting the same strong feature.
3
Together they act like
dropout for tabular boosting.
4
Give an example
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5
Common mistake
What juniors usually get wrong.
6
Close
When you pick this over the alternative.

EXAMPLE — See it in action

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“Column sampling, like colsample_bytree, stops the model from always splitting th”

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Key takeaway

Subsampling rows each round, as in stochastic gradient boosting, makes trees less correlated and faster. Column sampling, like colsample_bytree, stops the model from always splitting the same strong feature.