Oblique Bayesian additive regression trees

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Main Authors: Nguyen, Paul-Hieu V., Yee, Ryan, Deshpande, Sameer K.
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Published: 2024
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author Nguyen, Paul-Hieu V.
Yee, Ryan
Deshpande, Sameer K.
author_facet Nguyen, Paul-Hieu V.
Yee, Ryan
Deshpande, Sameer K.
contents Current implementations of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) are based on axis-aligned decision rules that recursively partition the feature space using a single feature at a time. Several authors have demonstrated that oblique trees, whose decision rules are based on linear combinations of features, can sometimes yield better predictions than axis-aligned trees and exhibit excellent theoretical properties. We develop an oblique version of BART that leverages a data-adaptive decision rule prior that recursively partitions the feature space along random hyperplanes. Using several synthetic and real-world benchmark datasets, we systematically compared our oblique BART implementation to axis-aligned BART and other tree ensemble methods, finding that oblique BART was competitive with -- and sometimes much better than -- those methods.
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spellingShingle Oblique Bayesian additive regression trees
Nguyen, Paul-Hieu V.
Yee, Ryan
Deshpande, Sameer K.
Machine Learning
Current implementations of Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) are based on axis-aligned decision rules that recursively partition the feature space using a single feature at a time. Several authors have demonstrated that oblique trees, whose decision rules are based on linear combinations of features, can sometimes yield better predictions than axis-aligned trees and exhibit excellent theoretical properties. We develop an oblique version of BART that leverages a data-adaptive decision rule prior that recursively partitions the feature space along random hyperplanes. Using several synthetic and real-world benchmark datasets, we systematically compared our oblique BART implementation to axis-aligned BART and other tree ensemble methods, finding that oblique BART was competitive with -- and sometimes much better than -- those methods.
title Oblique Bayesian additive regression trees
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08849