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Decision trees built with data remain in widespread use for nonparametric prediction. Predicting probability distributions is preferred over point predictions when uncertainty plays a prominent role in analysis and decision-making. We study…

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A method for creating a forest of model trees to fit samples of a function defined on images is described in several steps: down-sampling the images, determining a tree's hyperplanes, applying convolutions to the hyperplanes to handle small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 William Ward Armstrong , Hongyi Li , Jun Xu

Reachability analysis is a powerful tool when it comes to capturing the behaviour, thus verifying the safety, of autonomous systems. However, general-purpose methods, such as Hamilton-Jacobi approaches, suffer from the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Alessandro Alla , Peter M. Dower , Vincent Liu

Let $\mathrm{cof}(\mu)=\mu$ and $\kappa$ be a supercompact cardinal with $\mu<\kappa$. Assume that there is an increasing and continuous sequence of cardinals $\langle\kappa_\xi\mid \xi<\mu\rangle$ with $\kappa_0:=\kappa$ and such that, for…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Alejandro Poveda

Distance-based approaches in phylogenetics such as Neighbor-Joining are a fast and popular approach for building trees. These methods take pairs of sequences from them construct a value that, in expectation, is additive under a stochastic…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2008-08-21 Mike Steel

It is consistent that there exists a Souslin tree $T$ such that after forcing with it, $T$ becomes an almost Souslin Kurepa tree. This answers a question of Zakrzewski.

Logic · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Mohammad Golshani

Inferring causal structures from time series data is the central interest of many scientific inquiries. A major barrier to such inference is the problem of subsampling, i.e., the frequency of measurement is much lower than that of causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Mingzhou Liu , Xinwei Sun , Lingjing Hu , Yizhou Wang

Decision trees are an extremely popular machine learning technique. Unfortunately, overfitting in decision trees still remains an open issue that sometimes prevents achieving good performance. In this work, we present a novel approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Rafael Garcia Leiva , Antonio Fernandez Anta , Vincenzo Mancuso , Paolo Casari

Trees can accelerate queries that search or aggregate values over large collections. They achieve this by storing metadata that enables quick pruning (or inclusion) of subtrees when predicates on that metadata can prove that none (or all)…

Supertree construction is the process by which a set of phylogenetic trees, each on a subset of the overall set X of species, is combined into a tree on the full set S. The traditional use of supertree methods is the assembly of a large…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-10 Tandy Warnow

Motivated by the goal of constructing a model in which there are no $\kappa$-Aronszajn trees for any regular $\kappa>\aleph_1$, we produce a model with many singular cardinals where both the singular cardinals hypothesis and weak square…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Omer Ben-Neria , Chris Lambie-Hanson , Spencer Unger

We propose a procedure to build a decision tree which approximates the performance of complex machine learning models. This single approximation tree can be used to interpret and simplify the predicting pattern of random forests (RFs) and…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-31 Yichen Zhou , Giles Hooker

Assuming the existence of a proper class of supercompact cardinals, we force that for every regular cardinal $\kappa$, there are $\kappa^+$-Aronszajn trees and all such trees are special.

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-10 Mohammad Golshani , Yair Hayut

We investigate questions involving Aronszajn trees, square principles, and stationary reflection. We first consider two strengthenings of $\square(\kappa)$ introduced by Brodsky and Rinot for the purpose of constructing $\kappa$-Souslin…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Chris Lambie-Hanson

We formalize an existing computability-theoretic method of presenting first-order structures whose domains have the cardinality of the continuum. Work using these methods until now has emphasized their topological properties. We shift the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Jason Block , Russell Miller

In the first part of the paper, we show that if $\omega \le \kappa < \lambda$ are cardinals, $\kappa^{<\kappa} = \kappa$, and $\lambda$ is weakly compact, then in $V[\M(\kappa,\lambda)]$ the tree property at $\lambda =…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Radek Honzik , Sarka Stejskalova

A Supertree synthesizes the topologies of a set of phylogenetic trees carrying overlapping taxa set. In process, conflicts in the tree topologies are aimed to be resolved with the consensus clades. Such a problem is proved to be NP-hard.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-01 Sourya Bhattacharyya , Jayanta Mukhopadhyay

The tree-metric theorem provides a necessary and sufficient condition for a dissimilarity matrix to be a tree metric, and has served as the foundation for numerous distance-based reconstruction methods in phylogenetics. Our main result is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Lior Pachter , David E Speyer

A standard way of justifying that a certain probabilistic property holds in a system is to provide a witnessing subsystem (also called critical subsystem) for the property. Computing minimal witnessing subsystems is NP-hard already for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Simon Jantsch , Jakob Piribauer , Christel Baier

Assuming the existence of a strong cardinal $\kappa$ and a measurable cardinal above it, we force a generic extension in which $\kappa$ is a singular strong limit cardinal of any prescribed cofinality, and such that the tree property holds…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Mohammad Golshani , Rahman Mohammadpour