Grafting: Making Random Forests Consistent
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| author | Waltz, Nicholas |
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| contents | Despite their performance and widespread use, little is known about the theory of Random Forests. A major unanswered question is whether, or when, the Random Forest algorithm is consistent. The literature explores various variants of the classic Random Forest algorithm to address this question and known short-comings of the method. This paper is a contribution to this literature. Specifically, the suitability of grafting consistent estimators onto a shallow CART is explored. It is shown that this approach has a consistency guarantee and performs well in empirical settings. |
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| institution | arXiv |
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| spellingShingle | Grafting: Making Random Forests Consistent Waltz, Nicholas Machine Learning Despite their performance and widespread use, little is known about the theory of Random Forests. A major unanswered question is whether, or when, the Random Forest algorithm is consistent. The literature explores various variants of the classic Random Forest algorithm to address this question and known short-comings of the method. This paper is a contribution to this literature. Specifically, the suitability of grafting consistent estimators onto a shallow CART is explored. It is shown that this approach has a consistency guarantee and performs well in empirical settings. |
| title | Grafting: Making Random Forests Consistent |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06015 |