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Soft Gradient Boosting With Learnable Feature Transforms for Sequential Regression

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Hüseyin Karaca
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Süleyman S. Kozat
DOI:10.1109/LSP.2025.3639345delete
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We propose a soft gradient boosting framework for sequential regression that embeds a learnable linear feature transform within the boosting procedure. At each boosting iteration, we train a soft decision tree and learn a linear input feature transform $\mathbf {Q}$ together. This approach is particularly advantageous in high-dimensional, data-scarce scenarios, as it discovers the most relevant input representations while boosting.We demonstrate, using both synthetic and real-world datasets, that our method effectively and efficiently increases the performance by an end-to-end optimization of feature selection/transform and boosting while avoiding overfitting. We also extend our algorithm to differentiable non-linear transforms if overfitting is not a problem. To support reproducibility and future work, we share our code publicly.
Keywords:
Gradient boosting
sequential regression
soft decision trees

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IEEE Signal Processing Letters
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Bilkent University
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Papers: 139
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