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ReviewFrontiers in artificial intelligence2023

Decision trees: from efficient prediction to responsible AI.

Hendrik Blockeel, Laurens Devos, Benoît Frénay, Géraldin Nanfack, Siegfried Nijssen

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Review in Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hendrik BlockeelDepartment of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Laurens DevosDepartment of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Benoît FrénayFaculty of Computer Science, Université de Namur, Namur, Belgium.
Géraldin NanfackFaculty of Computer Science, Université de Namur, Namur, Belgium.
Siegfried NijssenICTEAM, UCLouvain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article provides a birds-eye view on the role of decision trees in machine learning and data science over roughly four decades. It sketches the evolution of decision tree research over the years, describes the broader context in which the research is situated, and summarizes strengths and weaknesses of decision trees in this context. The main goal of the article is to clarify the broad relevance to machine learning and artificial intelligence, both practical and theoretical, that decision trees still have today.

Indexed as

combinatorial optimizationdecision treesensemblesexplainable AIlearning under constraintsmachine learningresponsible AI

Identifiers

PMID37565044
PMCPMC10411911

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