After earlier explaining how to compute disorder and split data in his exploration of machine learning decision tree classifiers, resident data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research now ...

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...