Boosted Decision Trees, an Alternative to Artificial Neural Networks
Byron P. Roe, Haijun Yang, Ji Zhu, Yong Liu, I. Stancu, G. McGregor · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2004
The efficacy of particle identification is compared using artificial neutral networks and boosted decision trees. The comparison is performed in the context of the MiniBooNE, an experiment at Fermilab searching for neutrino oscillations. Based on studies of Monte Carlo samples of simulated data, particle identification with boosting algorithms has better performance than that with artificial neural networks for the MiniBooNE experiment. Although the tests in this paper were for one experiment, it is expected that boosting algorithms will find wide application in physics.