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Bagging vs Boosting

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What is the difference between bagging and boosting?

Asked in the Phone Screen stage. Ensemble learning fundamentals.

Keep your answer focused on how each method trains base learners, how predictions are combined, and when each is preferred. Be ready to discuss bias, variance, and common examples such as Random Forest and AdaBoost.