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ArticleBioData mining2014

Synthetic learning machines.

Hemant Ishwaran, James D Malley

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Article in BioData mining, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hemant Ishwaran *Division of Biostatistics, University of Miami, 1120 NW 14th Street, Miami, 33136 FL USA.
James D Malley *Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892 MD USA.

Funding

Statistical Learning for Biomedical DataZIACT000271 · CIT · CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY · PI MALLEY, JAMES D · 2009 to 2017
$1.2M
RF-SRC: A Unified Data ToolR01CA163739 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI ISHWARAN, HEMANT · 2012 to 2015
$966k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA163739
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundUsing a collection of different terminal nodesize constructed random forests, each generating a synthetic feature, a synthetic random forest is defined as a kind of hyperforest, calculated using the new input synthetic features, along with the original features.

resultsUsing a large collection of regression and multiclass datasets we show that synthetic random forests outperforms both conventional random forests and the optimized forest from the regresssion portfolio.

conclusionsSynthetic forests removes the need for tuning random forests with no additional effort on the part of the researcher. Importantly, the synthetic forest does this with evidently no loss in prediction compared to a well-optimized single random forest.

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MachineNodesizeRandom forestSynthetic featureTrees

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PMID25614764
PMCPMC4279689

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