@Alex: I don't have a workaround for you but this seems like a useful
addition. I don't know how hard it would be, but you should definitely
raise it as an issue on the github issues page for the project:
https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/issues?sort=updated&state=open
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Alex Kopp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking to build a random forest regression model with a pretty large
> amount of sparse data. I noticed that I cannot fit the random forest model
> with a sparse matrix. Unfortunately, a dense matrix is too large to fit in
> memory. What are my options?
>
> For reference, I have just over 400k features and just over 200k training
> examples
>
>
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