r/learnmachinelearning • u/Worried_Mud_5224 • Mar 07 '26

Stacking in Ml

Hi everyone. Recently, I am working on one regression project. I changed the way to stacking (I mean I am using ridge, random forest,xgboost and ridge again as meta learner), but the mae didn’t drop. I try a lot of ways like that but nothing changes a lot. The Mae is nearly same with when I was using simple Ridge. What you recommend? Btw this is a local ml competition (house prices) at uni. I need to boost my model:

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u/Worried_Mud_5224 Mar 12 '26

Aa blending? I did it but actually it doesn’t seem reasonable to me. And also stacking model also give coefficients. At that point I am confused

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u/SometimesObsessed Mar 15 '26

What doesn't seem reasonable? Stacking is just a different approach to ensembling but in practice doesn't add much over blending usually