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Stabilizing the Splits through Minimax Decision Trees
Zhenyuan Zhang, Hengrui Luo
By revisiting the end-cut preference (ECP) phenomenon associated with a single CART (Breiman et al. (1984)), we introduce MinimaxSplit decision trees, a robust alternative to CART…
math.ST2024
Ranking Perspective for Tree-based Methods with Applications to Symbolic Feature Selection
Hengrui Luo, Meng Li
Tree-based methods are powerful nonparametric techniques in statistics and machine learning. However, their effectiveness, particularly in finite-sample settings, is not fully unde…