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5 papers

cs.LG2026

CLARITree: Cholesky and Lookahead Accelerations for Regression with Interpretable Piecewise Linear Trees

Yixiao Wang, Hayden McTavish, Varun Babbar +2

Regression trees are among the most interpretable yet expressive model classes in machine learning. Historically, greedy induction has been the dominant approach for constructing w…

cs.LG2026

From Rashomon Theory to PRAXIS: Efficient Decision Tree Rashomon Sets

Zakk Heile, Hayden McTavish, Varun Babbar +2

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…

cs.LG2025

Near Optimal Decision Trees in a SPLIT Second

Varun Babbar, Hayden McTavish, Cynthia Rudin +1

Decision tree optimization is fundamental to interpretable machine learning. The most popular approach is to greedily search for the best feature at every decision point, which is…

cs.LG2025

"What is Different Between These Datasets?" A Framework for Explaining Data Distribution Shifts

Varun Babbar, Zhicheng Guo, Cynthia Rudin

The performance of machine learning models relies heavily on the quality of input data, yet real-world applications often face significant data-related challenges. A common issue a…

cs.LG2025

Learning a Consensus Sub-Network with Polarization Regularization and One Pass Training

Xiaoying Zhi, Varun Babbar, Rundong Liu +4

The subject of green AI has been gaining attention within the deep learning community given the recent trend of ever larger and more complex neural network models. Existing solutio…