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Tabular data underpins decisions across science, industry, and public services. Despite rapid progress, advances in deep learning have not fully carried over to the tabular domain, where gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs) remain a…

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Falls are one of the important causes of accidental or unintentional injury death worldwide. Therefore, this paper presents a reliable fall detection algorithm and a mobile cloud collaboration system for fall detection. The algorithm is an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-11 Tong Wu , Yang Gu , Yiqiang Chen , Yunlong Xiao , Jiwei Wang

Random forests have become an established tool for classification and regression, in particular in high-dimensional settings and in the presence of complex predictor-response relationships. For bounded outcome variables restricted to the…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-21 Leonie Weinhold , Matthias Schmid , Marvin N. Wright , Moritz Berger

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees [BART, Chipman et al., 2010] have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable predictive performance and ability to quantify uncertainty. However, standard decision tree models rely on recursive…

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Decision trees are prized for their interpretability and strong performance on tabular data. Yet, their reliance on simple axis-aligned linear splits often forces deep, complex structures to capture non-linear feature effects, undermining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Nakul Upadhya , Eldan Cohen

This work presents a highly optimized computational framework for the Discrete Dipole Approximation, a numerical method for calculating the optical properties associated with a target of arbitrary geometry that is widely used in…

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Differentiable forest is an ensemble of decision trees with full differentiability. Its simple tree structure is easy to use and explain. With full differentiability, it would be trained in the end-to-end learning framework with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Yingshi Chen

Online Learning to Rank (OLTR) methods optimize rankers based on user interactions. State-of-the-art OLTR methods are built specifically for linear models. Their approaches do not extend well to non-linear models such as neural networks. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Harrie Oosterhuis , Maarten de Rijke

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a foundational model for discovering latent thematic structure in discrete data, but its Dirichlet prior cannot represent the rich correlations and hierarchical relationships often present among topics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zheng Wang , Nizar Bouguila

Plant seedling segmentation supports automated phenotyping in precision agriculture. Standard segmentation models face difficulties due to intricate background images and fine structures in leaves. We introduce UGDA-Net (Uncertainty-Guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohamed Ehab , Ali Hamdi

Decision trees are a widely used method for classification, both by themselves and as the building blocks of multiple different ensemble learning methods. The Max-Cut decision tree involves novel modifications to a standard, baseline model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jonathan Bodine , Dorit S. Hochbaum

Decision tree is an important method for both induction research and data mining, which is mainly used for model classification and prediction. ID3 algorithm is the most widely used algorithm in the decision tree so far. In this paper, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Singh Vijendra , Hemjyotsana Parashar , Nisha Vasudeva

In this paper we introduce a fuzzy constraint linear discriminant analysis (FC-LDA). The FC-LDA tries to minimize misclassification error based on modified perceptron criterion that benefits handling the uncertainty near the decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-02 Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi , Abedin Vahedian

Deep neural networks are behind many of the recent successes in machine learning applications. However, these models can produce overconfident decisions while encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) examples or making a wrong prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Navid Kardan , Ankit Sharma , Kenneth O. Stanley

Distributed Learning (DL) enables the training of machine learning models across multiple devices, yet it faces challenges like non-IID data distributions and device capability disparities, which can impede training efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Mengchen Fan , Keren Li , Tianyun Zhang , Qing Tian , Baocheng Geng

Tree-based methods are powerful nonparametric techniques in statistics and machine learning. However, their effectiveness, particularly in finite-sample settings, is not fully understood. Recent applications have revealed their surprising…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Hengrui Luo , Meng Li

In single-cell research, tracing and analyzing high-throughput single-cell differentiation trajectories is crucial for understanding biological processes. Key to this is the robust modeling of hierarchical structures that govern cellular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zelin Zang , WenZhe Li , Yongjie Xu , Chang Yu , Changxi Chi , Jingbo Zhou , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

Graph-based methods provide a powerful tool set for many non-parametric frameworks in Machine Learning. In general, the memory and computational complexity of these methods is quadratic in the number of examples in the data which makes them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Saeed Amizadeh , Bo Thiesson , Milos Hauskrecht

Decision trees and their ensembles are popular in machine learning as easy-to-understand models. Several techniques have been proposed in the literature for learning tree-based classifiers, with different techniques working well for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Maria-Florina Balcan , Dravyansh Sharma

Occlusion remains a critical challenge in robotic fruit harvesting, as undetected or inaccurately localised fruits often results in substantial crop losses. To mitigate this issue, we propose a harvesting framework using a new amodal…

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