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This lecture covers the concept of boosting, focusing on the Adaboost algorithm and forward stagewise additive modeling. It explains the derivation of Adaboost as FSAM on the exponential loss, boosted trees, and interpretations of Adaboost. The lecture also discusses the solutions for B and G, comparing with Adaboost, boosting of trees, and general gradient tree boosting for classification.