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mcboost

Multi-Calibration Boosting

v0.4.4 · Jul 24, 2025 · LGPL (>= 3)

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Implements 'Multi-Calibration Boosting' (2018) <https://proceedings.mlr.press/v80/hebert-johnson18a.html> and 'Multi-Accuracy Boosting' (2019) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.1805.12317> for the multi-calibration of a machine learning model's prediction. 'MCBoost' updates predictions for sub-groups in an iterative fashion in order to mitigate biases like poor calibration or large accuracy differences across subgroups. Multi-Calibration works best in scenarios where the underlying data & labels are unbiased, but resulting models are. This is often the case, e.g. when an algorithm fits a majority population while ignoring or under-fitting minority populations.

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re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
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--- re-building ‘mcboost_basics_extensions.Rmd’ using rmarkdown
--- finished re-building ‘mcboost_basics_extensions.Rmd’

Fatal error: cannot create 'R_TempDir'
SUMMARY: processing the following file failed:
  ‘mcboost_example.Rmd’

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies backports checkmate data.table mlr3 mlr3misc mlr3pipelines R6 rmarkdown rpart glmnet mcboost

Version History

8 tracked
new 0.4.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.4.4 ← 0.4.3 diff Jul 23, 2025
updated 0.4.3 ← 0.4.2 diff Apr 11, 2024
updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff Aug 17, 2022
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4.0 diff Apr 24, 2022
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.3.0 diff Jan 17, 2022
updated 0.3.3.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Aug 2, 2021
new 0.3.0 Jun 8, 2021