uBoost: A boosting method for producing uniform selection efficiencies from multivariate classifiers

Abstract

The use of multivariate classifiers, especially neural networks and decision trees, has become commonplace in particle physics. Typically, a series of classifiers is trained rather than just one to enhance the performance; this is known as boosting. This paper presents a novel method of boosting that produces a uniform selection efficiency in a user-defined multivariate space. Such a technique is ideally suited for amplitude analyses or other situations where optimizing a single integrated figure of merit is not what is desired.

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