Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...

Decision tree regression is a machine learning technique . To predict the output y for an input vector X, the tree structure encodes a set of if-then rules such as, "If the value of X at index [2] is ...

Meta-analysis of the literature on quantum dot toxicity using a machine-learning tool helps reveal hidden relationships between material properties and toxicity. A random forest is an ensemble of a ...