On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Tim Peut <t...@timpeut.com> wrote: > Has anyone found that Mahout's random forest doesn't perform as well as > other implementations? If not, is there any reason why it wouldn't perform > as well? >
This is disappointing, but not entirely surprising. There has been considerably less effort applied to Mahouts random forest package than the comparable R packages. Note, particularly that the Mahout implementation is not regularized. That could well be a big difference.
