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Boosting cost-complexity pruned trees On Tweedie responses: the ABT machine

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  • Trufin, Julien

    (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

  • Denuit, Michel

    (Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/ISBA, Belgium)

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This paper proposes a new boosting machine based on forward stagewise additive modeling with cost-complexity pruned trees. In the Tweedie case, it deals directly with observed res-ponses, not gradients of the loss function. Trees included in the score progressively reduce to the root-node one, in an adaptive way. The proposed Adaptive Boosting Tree (ABT) machine thus automatically stops at that time, avoiding to resort to the time-consuming cross validation approach. A case study performed on motor third-party liability insurance claim data demons-trates the performances of the proposed ABT machine for ratemaking, in comparison with regu-lar gradient boosting trees.

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  • Trufin, Julien & Denuit, Michel, 2021. "Boosting cost-complexity pruned trees On Tweedie responses: the ABT machine," LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA 2021015, Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA).
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