What is the difference between bagging and boosting?

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Bagging (Bootstrap Aggregating) and Boosting are both ensemble learning techniques that combine multiple models to improve accuracy, but they differ in how they build and train these models.

🔹 Bagging

• Idea: Train multiple models independently on random subsets of data (with replacement).

• Algorithm examples: Random Forest, Bagged Decision Trees.

• Process:

  1. Create multiple bootstrap samples from dataset.

  2. Train a model (e.g., decision tree) on each sample.

  3. Aggregate predictions (majority vote for classification, average for regression).

• Goal: Reduce variance (overfitting).

• Parallel training is possible since models don’t depend on each other.

🔹 Boosting

• Idea: Train models sequentially, where each new model focuses on correcting errors of the previous ones.

• Algorithm examples: AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, LightGBM.

• Process:

  1. Train a weak learner.

  2. Increase weight of misclassified points.

  3. Train next learner to improve mistakes.

  4. Combine models with weighted voting/averaging.

• Goal: Reduce bias (underfitting).

• Sequential training, so harder to parallelize.

✅ Key Difference

• Bagging → reduces variance (stability) by combining independent learners.

• Boosting → reduces bias (accuracy) by combining dependent learners.

👉 In short, bagging = parallel, variance reduction; boosting = sequential, bias reduction.

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