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To find an easy way to describe a complex model with a high accuracy is an important objective for machine learning. Many research fields such as medicine, marketing, or finance need algorithms able to give a reason for each prediction made. Until now, a common solution to achieve this goal has been to use induction rule to describe cells of a partition of the features space X. A rule is an If-Then statement which is understood by everyone and easily interpreted by experts (medical doctors, asset managers, etc.). We focus on rules with a If condition defined as a hyperrectangle of X. Sets of such rules have always been seen as decision trees, which means that there is a one-to-one correspondence between a rule and a generated partition cell.

We study the problem of estimating heterogeneous treatment effects from observational data, where the treatment policy on the collected data was determined by potentially many confounding observable variables. We propose orthogonal random forest, an algorithm that combines orthogonalization, a technique that effectively removes the confounding effect in two-stage estimation, with generalized random forests [Athey et al., 2017], a flexible method for estimating treatment effect heterogeneity. We prove a consistency rate result of our estimator in the partially linear regression model, and en route we provide a consistency analysis for a general framework of performing generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation. We also provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of our algorithms, and show that they consistently outperform baseline approaches.

We consider the optimization of an uncertain objective over continuous and multi-dimensional decision spaces in problems in which we are only provided with observational data. We propose a novel algorithmic framework that is tractable, asymptotically consistent, and superior to comparable methods on example problems. Our approach leverages predictive machine learning methods and incorporates information on the uncertainty of the predicted outcomes for the purpose of prescribing decisions. We demonstrate the efficacy of our method on examples involving both synthetic and real data sets.

ANZ Bank has turned to machine learning to improve existing forecasting techniques. Economists Jack Chambers and David Plank applied the technique to monthly retail sales data, and compared it to the standard error found in consensus surveys compiled by Bloomberg. The machine learning process used by the pair was called "random forest". Think of a standard decision tree model, which maps out decisions or actions and their possible consequences. It follows that the "forest" is comprised of multiple decision trees, which are calculated and averaged to find correlations with retail sales.

Classification and regression in which the inputs are graphs of arbitrary size and shape have been paid attention in various fields such as computational chemistry and bioinformatics. Subgraph indicators are often used as the most fundamental features, but the number of possible subgraph patterns are intractably large due to the combinatorial explosion. We propose a novel efficient algorithm to jointly learn relevant subgraph patterns and nonlinear models of their indicators. Previous methods for such joint learning of subgraph features and models are based on search for single best subgraph features with specific pruning and boosting procedures of adding their indicators one by one, which result in linear models of subgraph indicators. In contrast, the proposed approach is based on directly learning regression trees for graph inputs using a newly derived bound of the total sum of squares for data partitions by a given subgraph feature, and thus can learn nonlinear models through standard gradient boosting. An illustrative example we call the Graph-XOR problem to consider nonlinearity, numerical experiments with real datasets, and scalability comparisons to naive approaches using explicit pattern enumeration are also presented.

At this stage, the practitioner might be satisfied with the analysis and be ready to build a final production-ready model. Clearly decision trees are performing best, but is there a (statistically) significant difference between the different implementations? Is it possible to improve performance further? There might be more than one dataset (from different stores/sites) that needs to be considered. In such situations, it is a good idea to perform a more principled experiment to answer these questions.

We explore several oversampling techniques for an imbalanced multi-label classification problem, a setting often encountered when developing models for Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CADx) systems. While most CADx systems aim to optimize classifiers for overall accuracy without considering the relative distribution of each class, we look into using synthetic sampling to increase per-class performance when predicting the degree of malignancy. Using low-level image features and a random forest classifier, we show that using synthetic oversampling techniques increases the sensitivity of the minority classes by an average of 7.22% points, with as much as a 19.88% point increase in sensitivity for a particular minority class. Furthermore, the analysis of low-level image feature distributions for the synthetic nodules reveals that these nodules can provide insights on how to preprocess image data for better classification performance or how to supplement the original datasets when more data acquisition is feasible.

Generating datasets that "look like" given real ones is an interesting tasks for healthcare applications of ML and many other fields of science and engineering. In this paper we propose a new method of general application to binary datasets based on a method for learning the parameters of a latent variable moment that we have previously used for clustering patient datasets. We compare our method with a recent proposal (MedGan) based on generative adversarial methods and find that the synthetic datasets we generate are globally more realistic in at least two senses: real and synthetic instances are harder to tell apart by Random Forests, and the MMD statistic. The most likely explanation is that our method does not suffer from the "mode collapse" which is an admitted problem of GANs. Additionally, the generative models we generate are easy to interpret, unlike the rather obscure GANs. Our experiments are performed on two patient datasets containing ICD-9 diagnostic codes: the publicly available MIMIC-III dataset and a dataset containing admissions for congestive heart failure during 7 years at Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona.

The random-forest technique has emerged in recent years as a powerful way to analyze large data sets while avoiding some of the pitfalls of other data-mining methods. It is based on the idea that some future event can be determined by a decision tree in which an outcome is calculated at each branch by reference to a set of training data. However, decision trees suffer from a well-known problem. In the latter stages of the branching process, decisions can become severely distorted by training data that is sparse and prone to huge variation at this kind of resolution, a problem known as overfitting. The random-forest approach is different.