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Re:Deep Neural Decision Forests [pdf] by JD557 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:39PM (#10566914)
Also, it might be worth adding that random forests are based on decision trees, which can be interpreted by humans.

While it's hard to interpret a random forest, it's still much more interpretable than a neural network. Maybe this model is also easier to interpret by humans.

Re:Deep Neural Decision Forests [pdf] by Fede_V on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:45PM (#10566937)
Random forests are very difficult to interpret especially once you start having lots of trees.
Re:Deep Neural Decision Forests [pdf] by rm999 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:48PM (#10566951)
>While it's hard to interpret a random forest, it's still much more interpretable than a neural network

Depends on the domain. The first layer or two of a neural network can be fairly interpretable on image or spectrogram (sound) data, for example.