AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition

Closed weights AT&T July 1996

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The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

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Origin

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Organisation
AT&T
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
3 July 1996
Authors
Yoav Freund, Robert E. Schapire

What it does

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Domain
Vision
Task
Digit recognition

Size

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Training data
9,709 tokens

How it is classified

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Why it is tracked
Highly cited

Also listed in Denis Panjuta's List of 100+ AI Algorithms

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
12,977

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Experiments with a New Boosting Algorithm
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

About this model

AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition was published by AT&T, in United States of America, in July 1996. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing digit recognition.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

Training and provenance

The training set ran to roughly 9,709 tokens.

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: highly cited.

Answers

AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition — common questions

01

Who created AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition?

AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition was published by AT&T, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

02

When was AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition released?

AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition was published in July 1996. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

What is AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition used for?

AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition works in Vision, and is recorded as handling digit recognition. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

04

What GPU do I need to run AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition?

None. AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

05

Is AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition open source?

The licensing for AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

06

How many parameters does AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition have?

No parameter count has been published for AdaBoost.M2 Digit Recognition, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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