Solved – How does gentle boosting differ from AdaBoost

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There is a variant of boosting called gentleboost. How does gentle boosting differ from the better-known AdaBoost?

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The second paper you cite seems to contain the answer to your question. To recap; mathematically, the main difference is in the shape of the loss function being used. Friedman, Hastie, and Tibshirani's loss function being easier to optimize at each iteration. –