• DOI:10.1109/tpami.2016.2636831
Corpus ID: 5381516

Cross-Validated Variable Selection in Tree-Based Methods Improves Predictive Performance

@article{Painsky2017CrossValidatedVS,
  title={Cross-Validated Variable Selection in Tree-Based Methods Improves Predictive Performance},
  author={Amichai Painsky and S. Rosset},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  year={2017},
  volume={39},
  pages={2142-2153}
}

• Amichai Painsky, S. Rosset
• Published 2017
• Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Recursive partitioning methods producing tree-like models are a long standing staple of predictive modeling. However, a fundamental flaw in the partitioning (or splitting) rule of commonly used tree building methods precludes them from treating different types of variables equally. This most clearly manifests in these methods’ inability to properly utilize categorical variables with a large number of categories, which are ubiquitous in the new age of big data. We propose a framework to… Expand

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