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Random Forest

An ensemble of decision trees trained on random subsets of data and features, reducing overfitting through averaging.

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6 stops · basics first
  1. Machine Learning ✓ understood

    Building systems that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules, getting better at a task as they see more examples.

  2. Supervised Learning ✓ understood

    Learning from examples paired with the correct answer, so a model can predict answers for new inputs it hasn't seen.

  3. Ensemble Learning ✓ understood

    Combining multiple models to produce better predictions than any individual model (bagging, boosting, stacking).

  4. Classification ✓ understood

    A supervised learning task where the model assigns each input to one of a fixed set of categories, such as spam or not spam.

  5. Regression ✓ understood

    A supervised learning task where the model predicts continuous numerical values rather than discrete categories.

  6. Decision Tree ✓ understood

    A tree-structured model that makes decisions by splitting data based on feature values, interpretable but prone to overfitting.

  7. Random Forest · you are here ✓ understood

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Foundations Gradient Boosting An ensemble technique that builds models sequentially, each correcting errors of previous ones (XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost). Foundations Feature Importance Measures indicating which features contribute most to model predictions, useful for interpretation and selection. Foundations Bias-Variance Tradeoff The balance between a model's bias (systematic error) and variance (sensitivity to training data fluctuations). Foundations Classification A supervised learning task where the model assigns each input to one of a fixed set of categories, such as spam or not spam.