That explains the confusion! Thanks, guys.
Tommy On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Joseph Turian <[email protected]> wrote: > Gilles, > > I met Tommy Guy at the pydata conference today. > If I remember correctly, Brian Eoff (I don't have his email address) > errantly said that random forests partitions/samples the features > before creating each tree. I didn't want to correct him in front of > the audience, and it slipped my mind to mention it to him later. > > But I remembered when Tommy Guy asked the question. > > Joseph > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Gilles Louppe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> I know the speaker at pydata today claimed that the features are >>> partitioned, >> >> Can you elaborate? If you pick your features prior to the construction >> of the tree and then build it on that subset only, then indeed, this >> is not random forest. That algorithm is called Random Subspaces. >> >> Best, >> >> Gilles >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> WINDOWS 8 is here. >> Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. >> Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. >> http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ >> join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Scikit-learn-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general > > > > -- > Joseph Turian, Ph.D. | President, MetaOptimize > "Optimize Profits. Optimize Engagement." > http://metaoptimize.com > 855-ALL-DATA > > The web's most active forum for data scientists: http://metaoptimize.com/qa/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WINDOWS 8 is here. > Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. > Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. > http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ > join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ > _______________________________________________ > Scikit-learn-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINDOWS 8 is here. Millions of people. Your app in 30 days. Visit The Windows 8 Center at Sourceforge for all your go to resources. http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ join-generation-app-and-make-money-coding-fast/ _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
