Week 5

Week 5

The plan for this week was to develop a decision tree a generic framework for gradient boosting and integrate regression and classification tree.

Day 1 and 2:

• Developed the stub methods and creating generic modules for future implementations of decision tree regression.

Day 3:

• Encountered a bug where Gradient Boosting was working for regression but did not work for regression trees.
• The module was working perfectly well when the Linear regression framework was plugged in but failed when the regression tree was plugged in.

Day 4: 

• Debugged the bug I encountered yesterday. 
• Such a noob mistake. While incorporating inheritance, I was using the Predict function for regression for regression tree.
• Fixed it and implemented a generic framework for gradient boosting regression.

Day 5:

• Similarly implemented a generic framework for gradient boosting classification.