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ArticleProceedings of the ... AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence2023

Optimal Sparse Regression Trees.

Rui Zhang, Rui Xin, Margo Seltzer, Cynthia Rudin

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Article in Proceedings of the ... AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Optimal Sparse Survival Trees.Proceedings of machine learning research · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Rui ZhangDuke University.
Rui XinDuke University.
Margo SeltzerUniversity of British Columbia.
Cynthia RudinDuke University.

Funding

A machine learning framework for understanding impacts on the HIV latent reservoir size, including drugs of abuseR01DA054994 · NIDA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI RUDIN, CYNTHIA · 2021 to 2025
$2.3M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA054994
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regression trees are one of the oldest forms of AI models, and their predictions can be made without a calculator, which makes them broadly useful, particularly for high-stakes applications. Within the large literature on regression trees, there has been little effort towards full provable optimization, mainly due to the computational hardness of the problem. This work proposes a dynamic-programming-with-bounds approach to the construction of provably-optimal sparse regression trees. We leverage a novel lower bound based on an optimal solution to the k-Means clustering algorithm on one dimensional data. We are often able to find optimal sparse trees in seconds, even for challenging datasets that involve large numbers of samples and highly-correlated features.

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PMID38650922
PMCPMC11034802

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