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One Class Splitting Criteria for Random Forests

Machine Learning 2016-11-22 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

Random Forests (RFs) are strong machine learning tools for classification and regression. However, they remain supervised algorithms, and no extension of RFs to the one-class setting has been proposed, except for techniques based on second-class sampling. This work fills this gap by proposing a natural methodology to extend standard splitting criteria to the one-class setting, structurally generalizing RFs to one-class classification. An extensive benchmark of seven state-of-the-art anomaly detection algorithms is also presented. This empirically demonstrates the relevance of our approach.

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@article{arxiv.1611.01971,
  title  = {One Class Splitting Criteria for Random Forests},
  author = {Nicolas Goix and Nicolas Drougard and Romain Brault and Maël Chiapino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.01971},
  year   = {2016}
}
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