Friedman's gradient boosting machine paper from ~1999 is worth a read: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aos/1013203451 https://projecteuclid.org/

Friedman's gradient boosting machine paper from ~1999 is worth a read: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aos/1013203451 https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aos/10132034...