Why ensemble learning?

Why ensemble learning?

wisdom of the crowd : In many cases you will find that this aggregated answer is better than an expert’s answer.

Similarly, if you aggregate the predictions of a group of predictors (such as classifiers or regressors), you will often get better predictions than with the best individual predictor.

A group of predictors is called an ensemble;

thus, this technique is called Ensemble Learning,

and an Ensemble Learning algorithm is called an Ensemble method.

Popular Emsemble methods: