On 01/20/2012 10:45 PM, Gilles Louppe wrote: > Yes indeed, as I said at the time, much of the forest code could be > reused to implement a pure averaging meta-estimator. > > The main thing that makes BaseForest tree-specific is that it > precomputes X_argsorted such that it is computed only once for all > trees and inject it into the fit method of the base trees. But besides > that, any base estimator could actually be used. > > That I overlooked. Thanks for pointing it out.
I was wondering whether we want the code there for both, forests and meta estimators. This seems a bit redundant. The precomputation is certainly a major optimization. This could be included in a meta estimator but it would increase complexity quite a bit. On the other hand, maybe there are other estimators that can be boosted and would profit from some prior computations. I don't know whether this is actually the case, though. What do you think? Cheers, Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
