Github user 0asa commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2435#discussion_r19732330
--- Diff:
mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/tree/impl/DecisionTreeMetadata.scala
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@@ -128,13 +139,34 @@ private[tree] object DecisionTreeMetadata {
}
}
+ // Set number of features to use per node (for random forests).
+ val _featureSubsetStrategy = featureSubsetStrategy match {
+ case "auto" => if (numTrees == 1) "all" else "sqrt"
+ case _ => featureSubsetStrategy
+ }
+ val numFeaturesPerNode: Int = _featureSubsetStrategy match {
+ case "all" => numFeatures
+ case "sqrt" => math.sqrt(numFeatures).ceil.toInt
+ case "log2" => math.max(1, (math.log(numFeatures) /
math.log(2)).ceil.toInt)
--- End diff --
+1 for `sqrt` as it has been widely used as a standard default for such
ensemble methods.
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