Blending Ensemble technique

[chayan-kathuria]

Blending is an ensemble machine learning technique that uses a machine learning model to learn how to best combine the predictions from multiple contributing ensemble member models.

As such, blending is the same as stacked generalization, known as stacking, broadly conceived. Often, blending and stacking are used interchangeably in the same paper or model description.

Many machine learning practitioners have had success using stacking and related techniques to boost prediction accuracy beyond the level obtained by any of the individual models. In some contexts, stacking is also referred to as blending, and we will use the terms interchangeably here.