Summary of Smart: a Flexible Approach to Regression Using Spline-based Multivariate Adaptive Regression Trees, by William Pattie et al.
SMART: A Flexible Approach to Regression using Spline-Based Multivariate Adaptive Regression Trees
by William Pattie, Arvind Krishna
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Spline-based Multivariate Adaptive Regression Trees (SMART) method combines the strengths of decision trees and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) for predictive modeling. By leveraging MARS’s ability to handle continuous relationships, SMART allows decision trees to focus on identifying discontinuities in data subsets, resulting in improved performance over state-of-the-art methods. The approach is demonstrated on various datasets, showcasing its potential for real-world applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SMART is a new way of combining two existing techniques – decision trees and MARS – to better model continuous relationships in data. It works by using a decision tree to find groups of data with different patterns, then using MARS to make more accurate predictions within each group. This helps the approach handle situations where other methods struggle. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Decision tree » Regression
