Learned Look-Ahead Splitting Rule for CART
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The paper introduces a look‑ahead splitting rule for Classification and Regression Trees (CART) that evaluates candidate splits by the error reduction achieved after growing a conventional CART subtree beneath each split. To keep the method computationally feasible, a smart look‑ahead algorithm is proposed that learns downstream split values from node‑level features. Experiments on simulated data and two real datasets show that both full and smart look‑ahead methods outperform the standard greedy splitting strategy, especially in hierarchical or interaction‑driven scenarios.
The paper introduces DICS, a clustering-based framework that uses data-informed priors to construct a compact set of candidate splits for decision tree classifiers. By incorporating class-aware structure, DICS reduces the split search space, preserving predictive performance while cutting training time. The authors provide theoretical analysis and experimental results showing comparable accuracy to exhaustive search across synthetic and benchmark datasets.
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