Digging up an old thread: >> Also, I was wondering how tree-specific the random forest module is. >> I looked at the pull request but could not find much about this. >> Was there any discussion on this that I missed? What was the reasoning >> behind having mixins instread of meta-classifier for bagging? >> > The current implementation is not that much tree-specific, but I > implemented some optimizations in my pending pull requests #478 and > #491 that makes the BaseForest class highly tree-specific. > > In how far is #491 tree specific? This is parallelization over different boot strap samples. Or am I missing something there? Feature importance (#478) is not as generic but "just" relies on feature importance from the base classifier, right? Or did I miss something there, too?
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