Re: [ML] Stop conditions for RandomForest

2017-06-28 Thread OBones
To me, they are. Y is used to control if a split is a valid candidate when deciding which one to follow. X is used to make a node a leaf if it has too few elements to even consider candidate splits. 颜发才(Yan Facai) wrote: It seems that split will always stop when count of nodes is less than

Re: [ML] Stop conditions for RandomForest

2017-06-28 Thread Yan Facai
It seems that split will always stop when count of nodes is less than max(X, Y). Hence, are they different? On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:07 PM, OBones wrote: > Hello, > > Reading around on the theory behind tree based regression, I concluded > that there are various reasons to

[ML] Stop conditions for RandomForest

2017-06-27 Thread OBones
Hello, Reading around on the theory behind tree based regression, I concluded that there are various reasons to stop exploring the tree when a given node has been reached. Among these, I have those two: 1. When starting to process a node, if its size (row count) is less than X then consider