Enhance Learning Efficiency of Oblique Decision Tree via Feature Concatenation

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Autores principales: Lyu, Shen-Huan, He, Yi-Xiao, Wang, Yanyan, Qu, Zhihao, Tang, Bin, Ye, Baoliu
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Publicado: 2025
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author Lyu, Shen-Huan
He, Yi-Xiao
Wang, Yanyan
Qu, Zhihao
Tang, Bin
Ye, Baoliu
author_facet Lyu, Shen-Huan
He, Yi-Xiao
Wang, Yanyan
Qu, Zhihao
Tang, Bin
Ye, Baoliu
contents Oblique Decision Tree (ODT) separates the feature space by linear projections, as opposed to the conventional Decision Tree (DT) that forces axis-parallel splits. ODT has been proven to have a stronger representation ability than DT, as it provides a way to create shallower tree structures while still approximating complex decision boundaries. However, its learning efficiency is still insufficient, since the linear projections cannot be transmitted to the child nodes, resulting in a waste of model parameters. In this work, we propose an enhanced ODT method with Feature Concatenation (\texttt{FC-ODT}), which enables in-model feature transformation to transmit the projections along the decision paths. Theoretically, we prove that our method enjoys a faster consistency rate w.r.t. the tree depth, indicating that our method possesses a significant advantage in generalization performance, especially for shallow trees. Experiments show that \texttt{FC-ODT} can outperform the other state-of-the-art decision trees with a limited tree depth.
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spellingShingle Enhance Learning Efficiency of Oblique Decision Tree via Feature Concatenation
Lyu, Shen-Huan
He, Yi-Xiao
Wang, Yanyan
Qu, Zhihao
Tang, Bin
Ye, Baoliu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Oblique Decision Tree (ODT) separates the feature space by linear projections, as opposed to the conventional Decision Tree (DT) that forces axis-parallel splits. ODT has been proven to have a stronger representation ability than DT, as it provides a way to create shallower tree structures while still approximating complex decision boundaries. However, its learning efficiency is still insufficient, since the linear projections cannot be transmitted to the child nodes, resulting in a waste of model parameters. In this work, we propose an enhanced ODT method with Feature Concatenation (\texttt{FC-ODT}), which enables in-model feature transformation to transmit the projections along the decision paths. Theoretically, we prove that our method enjoys a faster consistency rate w.r.t. the tree depth, indicating that our method possesses a significant advantage in generalization performance, especially for shallow trees. Experiments show that \texttt{FC-ODT} can outperform the other state-of-the-art decision trees with a limited tree depth.
title Enhance Learning Efficiency of Oblique Decision Tree via Feature Concatenation
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00465