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		oofbey on Aug 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why do tree-based models still outperform deep lea... The kinds of trees that come out of these algorithms are so huge they really aren’t any more interpretable than a NN.

CornCobs on Aug 4, 2022 [–]

Not exactly. These tree models are ensemble methods, meaning they comprise several trees. Each individual tree may be small, but it is difficult to pinpoint explanations when that tree is but one amongst a forest

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