Re:Climbing trees 1: what are decision trees?
by jononor on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:24AM
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I love decision trees. Conceptually simple, computational efficient and giving very good results for a lot of tasks. I especially use them on microcontroller grade system, via emlearn - which converts scikit-learn models to embedded friendly C code.
These articles are a good and pretty comprehensive introduction. I would have loved to have even more examples around the bias/variance trade off for forests, it is a key concept that not all practitioners have integrated.
Re:Climbing trees 1: what are decision trees?
by clockwork-dev on Sunday May 18, 2025 @06:10PM
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I've been liking Explainable Boosting Machines lately (kind of a cross between a GAM and a tree). They also have decision trees. Haven't tested them in production yet but they're pretty to look at.
These articles are a good and pretty comprehensive introduction. I would have loved to have even more examples around the bias/variance trade off for forests, it is a key concept that not all practitioners have integrated.
[0] https://interpret.ml/docs/ebm.html [1] https://interpret.ml/docs/dt.html