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What is the purpose of bootstrap sampling in Random Forest?
What is the purpose of bootstrap sampling in Random Forest?
How are features selected for splitting in Random Forest?
How are features selected for splitting in Random Forest?
What is the effect of the ensemble method on overfitting in Random Forest?
What is the effect of the ensemble method on overfitting in Random Forest?
How are predictions aggregated in Random Forest for classification tasks?
How are predictions aggregated in Random Forest for classification tasks?
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What is the advantage of using Random Forest over individual decision trees?
What is the advantage of using Random Forest over individual decision trees?
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What is the purpose of building multiple decision trees in Random Forest?
What is the purpose of building multiple decision trees in Random Forest?
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What is the effect of random feature selection on the correlation between trees in Random Forest?
What is the effect of random feature selection on the correlation between trees in Random Forest?
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How does Random Forest handle overfitting of individual trees?
How does Random Forest handle overfitting of individual trees?
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What is the primary purpose of tree pruning in decision trees?
What is the primary purpose of tree pruning in decision trees?
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What is the main difference between pre-pruning and post-pruning?
What is the main difference between pre-pruning and post-pruning?
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What are the three measures of impurity discussed in relation to decision trees?
What are the three measures of impurity discussed in relation to decision trees?
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What is the main advantage of using Random Forests over individual decision trees?
What is the main advantage of using Random Forests over individual decision trees?
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How do Random Forests make predictions for classification tasks?
How do Random Forests make predictions for classification tasks?
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What is the purpose of constructing multiple decision trees in Random Forests?
What is the purpose of constructing multiple decision trees in Random Forests?
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What is the main difference between a single decision tree and a Random Forest?
What is the main difference between a single decision tree and a Random Forest?
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Why are Random Forests often used in machine learning?
Why are Random Forests often used in machine learning?
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What is the primary goal of the random forest algorithm?
What is the primary goal of the random forest algorithm?
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What is the process of selecting random subsets of the training data for each tree called?
What is the process of selecting random subsets of the training data for each tree called?
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What is the purpose of temporarily removing each feature one at a time from the dataset?
What is the purpose of temporarily removing each feature one at a time from the dataset?
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What is the outcome of the random forest algorithm in classification tasks?
What is the outcome of the random forest algorithm in classification tasks?
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What is the primary advantage of the random forest algorithm?
What is the primary advantage of the random forest algorithm?
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How do random forests handle overfitting?
How do random forests handle overfitting?
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What is the purpose of repeating steps 2 through 5 in the feature selection process?
What is the purpose of repeating steps 2 through 5 in the feature selection process?
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What is the outcome of the random forest algorithm in regression tasks?
What is the outcome of the random forest algorithm in regression tasks?
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Study Notes
Random Forest Algorithm
- Random Forest is an ensemble learning method used for classification, regression, and other tasks.
- It operates by constructing multiple decision trees at training time and outputting the class that is the mode of the classes (classification) or mean prediction (regression) of the individual trees.
Bootstrap Sampling
- Random Forest starts by selecting random subsets of the training data for each tree via bootstrap sampling.
- Each tree in the forest is trained on a slightly different set of data.
- Due to the sampling with replacement, some observations may be repeated in each subset.
Random Feature Selection
- At each split, Random Forest randomly selects a subset of the features.
- The size of the subset is typically a parameter set by the user.
- The best split is found within this subset.
Building Decision Trees
- Each bootstrap sample is used to build a decision tree.
- The training dataset for each tree is different due to bootstrap sampling, and only a subset of features is considered for splitting at each node.
- Each tree in the forest ends up being different.
Aggregating Trees' Predictions
- The Random Forest aggregates their predictions.
- For classification tasks, each tree "votes" for a class, and the class receiving the majority of votes becomes the model's prediction.
Output Prediction
- The aggregated predictions from all trees are used to make a final prediction.
- Since the Random Forest combines multiple models, it usually performs better than individual decision trees, especially on complex datasets that are prone to overfitting.
Feature Selection
- To evaluate the importance of features, the Random Forest model is trained with the current set of features.
- Then, each feature is temporarily removed from the dataset, and the performance of the model is evaluated without that feature.
- The feature whose removal has either improved the performance the most or degraded it the least is identified and removed permanently.
Tree Pruning
- Tree pruning is a technique used to reduce the complexity of the final model and thus help prevent overfitting.
- Pruning aims to improve the model's generalization capabilities by removing parts of the tree that provide little to no value in predicting the target variable.
- There are two main types of pruning: pre-pruning (early stopping) and post-pruning.
Measures of Impurity
- The three measures of impurity discussed in relation to decision trees are Classification Error, Entropy, and Gini Impurity.
- These measures are used to evaluate the quality of a split in the decision tree and to decide how to divide the data at each node to achieve the most homogenous subgroups with respect to the target variable.
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Learn how the Random Forest algorithm works, including bootstrap sampling and random feature selection. Understand how these techniques contribute to the accuracy of the model.