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Re:The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning by dave_sullivan on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:03PM (#4491160)
Ensemble learning is indeed a powerful tool--more than just the sum of its parts.

This is a cool ranking that lists various learning algos and how they do on MNIST (which may or my not be a good benchmark for what you're doing). Links to the corresponding papers are provided, including a few ensemble methods (committees), which tend to perform rather well. http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

Re:The Wisdom of Crowds: Using Ensembles for Machine Learning by rudyl313 on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:09PM (#4491187)
Very cool! Thanks for sharing that