方法对比

	决策树	梯度提升（Gradient Boosting）	随机森林
领域	机器学习	机器学习	机器学习
方法族	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
起源年份	1984	2001	2001
提出者	Breiman, Friedman, Olshen & Stone	Friedman, J. H.	Breiman, L.
类型	Recursive partitioning (if-then rules)	Ensemble (sequential boosting of decision trees)	Ensemble (bagging of decision trees)
开创性文献	Breiman, L., Friedman, J.H., Olshen, R.A. & Stone, C.J. (1984). Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth.	Friedman, J. H. (2001). Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine. Annals of Statistics, 29(5), 1189–1232.	Breiman, L. (2001). Random Forests. Machine Learning, 45, 5–32.
别名	Karar Ağacı (Decision Tree), karar ağacı, classification tree, regression tree	Gradient Boosting (GBM), GBM, gradient boosted trees, gradient boosting machine	Rastgele Orman (Random Forest), rastgele orman, random decision forest, bagged tree ensemble
相关	5	5	4
摘要	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.	Gradient Boosting is an ensemble learning method, formalised by Jerome H. Friedman in 2001, that combines a sequence of weak learners — typically shallow decision trees — so that each new tree is fitted to minimise the residual errors of the trees before it. It is the core algorithm behind popular implementations such as XGBoost, LightGBM and CatBoost.	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.