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Regularized Decision Tree

A regularized decision tree is a decision tree model whose complexity is intentionally limited through pruning, depth constraints, or penalty terms to prevent overfitting. Rooted in Breiman et al.'s CART framework (1984), regularization converts the greedy tree-growing procedure into a bias-variance tradeoff, yielding models that generalize better to unseen data than fully-grown trees.

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Regularized Decision Tree (Pruned and Constrained CART)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / machine-learning
  • Breiman, L., Friedman, J., Olshen, R., & Stone, C. (1984). Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth. · ISBN 978-0-412-04841-8
  • Esposito, F., Malerba, D., & Semeraro, G. (1997). A comparative analysis of methods for pruning decision trees. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 19(5), 476–491. · DOI 10.1109/34.589207
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