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

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SomaticPirate ◴[20 Oct 24 02:14 UTC] No.41892387[source]▶
Any suggestions for a 101 introduction to random forests? In university I encountered some ML courses but never random forests.
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1. __mharrison__ ◴[20 Oct 24 15:07 UTC] No.41895809[source]▶
My book, Effective XGBoost, covers tree theory from stumps to decision trees, to bagging (random forests) to boosting.