Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms

The simplest model is the Decision Tree. A combination of Decision Trees builds a Random Forest. Random Forest usually has higher accuracy than Decision Tree does. A group of Decision Trees built one after another by learning their predecessor is Adaptive Boosting and Gradient Boosting Machine. Adaptive and Gradient Boosting Machine can perform with better accuracy than Random Forest can. Extreme Gradient Boosting is created to compensate for the overfitting problem of Gradient Boosting. Thus, we can say that in general Extreme Gradient Boosting has the best accuracy amongst tree-based algorithms. Many say that Extreme Gradient Boosting wins many Machine Learning competitions. If you find this article useful, please feel free to share.