From Rashomon Theory to PRAXIS: Efficient Decision Tree Rashomon Sets

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Auteurs principaux: Heile, Zakk, McTavish, Hayden, Babbar, Varun, Seltzer, Margo, Rudin, Cynthia
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author Heile, Zakk
McTavish, Hayden
Babbar, Varun
Seltzer, Margo
Rudin, Cynthia
author_facet Heile, Zakk
McTavish, Hayden
Babbar, Varun
Seltzer, Margo
Rudin, Cynthia
contents Standard machine learning pipelines often admit many near-optimal models. These "Rashomon sets" pose a range of challenges and opportunities for uncertainty-aware, robust decision making. They allow users to incorporate domain knowledge and preferences that would otherwise be difficult to specify directly in an objective, and they quantify diversity among valid models for a given training dataset and objective function. However, computation of Rashomon sets, even for simple, interpretable model classes such as sparse decision trees, continues to require immense memory and runtime resources. We present PRAXIS, an algorithm to approximate this Rashomon set with orders of magnitude improvement in runtime and memory usage. We validate that PRAXIS regularly recovers almost all of the full Rashomon set. PRAXIS allows researchers and practitioners to scalably model the Rashomon set for real-world datasets. Code for PRAXIS is available at https://github.com/zakk-h/PRAXIS
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spellingShingle From Rashomon Theory to PRAXIS: Efficient Decision Tree Rashomon Sets
Heile, Zakk
McTavish, Hayden
Babbar, Varun
Seltzer, Margo
Rudin, Cynthia
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Standard machine learning pipelines often admit many near-optimal models. These "Rashomon sets" pose a range of challenges and opportunities for uncertainty-aware, robust decision making. They allow users to incorporate domain knowledge and preferences that would otherwise be difficult to specify directly in an objective, and they quantify diversity among valid models for a given training dataset and objective function. However, computation of Rashomon sets, even for simple, interpretable model classes such as sparse decision trees, continues to require immense memory and runtime resources. We present PRAXIS, an algorithm to approximate this Rashomon set with orders of magnitude improvement in runtime and memory usage. We validate that PRAXIS regularly recovers almost all of the full Rashomon set. PRAXIS allows researchers and practitioners to scalably model the Rashomon set for real-world datasets. Code for PRAXIS is available at https://github.com/zakk-h/PRAXIS
title From Rashomon Theory to PRAXIS: Efficient Decision Tree Rashomon Sets
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00202