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# On Ensembling vs Merging: Least Squares and Random Forests under Covariate Shift

@inproceedings{Ramchandran2021OnEV,
title={On Ensembling vs Merging: Least Squares and Random Forests under Covariate Shift},
author={Maya Ramchandran and Rajarshi Mukherjee},
year={2021}
}
• Published 4 June 2021
• Computer Science
It has been postulated and observed in practice that for prediction problems in which covariate data can be naturally partitioned into clusters, ensembling algorithms based on suitably aggregating models trained on individual clusters often perform substantially better than methods that ignore the clustering structure in the data. In this paper, we provide theoretical support to these empirical observations by asymptotically analyzing linear least squares and random forest regressions under a…
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