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Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers

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291 points sebg | 2 comments | 17 Oct 24 21:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.545s | source
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PoignardAzur ◴[19 Oct 24 19:35 UTC] No.41890125[source]▶
Reading the abstract alone, I have no idea whether it's talking about algorithmic trees or, like, the big brown things with small green bits.
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1. mhuffman ◴[19 Oct 24 19:49 UTC] No.41890231[source]▶
It's talking about these[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest

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2. defjm ◴[19 Oct 24 21:35 UTC] No.41890955[source]▶
Jeremy Howard has a great video explaining Random Forests: https://youtu.be/blyXCk4sgEg .