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	CatBoost	Beslutsträd	Random Forest
Ämnesområde	Maskininlärning	Maskininlärning	Maskininlärning
Familj	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Ursprungsår	2018	1984	2001
Upphovsperson	Prokhorenkova, L. et al. (Yandex)	Breiman, Friedman, Olshen & Stone	Breiman, L.
Typ	Gradient boosting on decision trees	Recursive partitioning (if-then rules)	Ensemble (bagging of decision trees)
Ursprungskälla	Prokhorenkova, L., Gusev, G., Vorobev, A., Dorogush, A.V. & Gulin, A. (2018). CatBoost: Unbiased Boosting with Categorical Features. In NeurIPS 2018.	Breiman, L., Friedman, J.H., Olshen, R.A. & Stone, C.J. (1984). Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth.	Breiman, L. (2001). Random Forests. Machine Learning, 45, 5–32.
Alias	CatBoost (Categorical Boosting), categorical boosting, ordered boosting, kategorik gradyan artırma	Karar Ağacı (Decision Tree), karar ağacı, classification tree, regression tree	Rastgele Orman (Random Forest), rastgele orman, random decision forest, bagged tree ensemble
Närliggande	5	5	4
Sammanfattning	CatBoost is a gradient boosting algorithm, introduced by Prokhorenkova and colleagues at Yandex in 2018, that handles categorical variables natively and uses ordered target encoding to avoid label leakage. By building an additive ensemble of trees while permuting the data order at each iteration, it is often superior to XGBoost and LightGBM on category-heavy data.	A Decision Tree is an interpretable classification and regression method, formalised by Breiman, Friedman, Olshen and Stone in their 1984 CART framework, that partitions the data with hierarchical if-then rules. Each split sends observations down one branch or another until a prediction is read off the leaf.	Random Forest is an ensemble learning method, introduced by Leo Breiman in 2001, that grows many decision trees on bootstrap samples of the data and combines their votes to produce strong classification and regression. By pooling many slightly different trees, it produces more accurate and more stable predictions than any single tree.