Weak hypotheses in boosting method

Question

What is the weak hypotheses generated during boosting?

Answer 1

I'm guessing that you mean the weak classifiers that are combined in boosting? Often these are decision trees only a few layers deep. They are trained, one after another, on the dataset weighted such that data points the last classifier got wrong are given more weight.

Check these notes from a UPenn machine learning class for more information:

http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~cis520/wiki/index.php?n=Lectures.Boosting