Alicia Curth
@aliciacurth
PhD student Machine Learning in Cambridge, Statistician at ❤️ In search of statistical intuition for modern ML & simple explanations for complex things 👀
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https://aliciacurth.github.io/ 13-09-2020 19:41:47
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Why do Random Forests perform so well off-the-shelf & appear essentially immune to overfitting?!? I’ve found the text-book answer “it’s just variance reduction 🤷🏼♀️” to be a bit too unspecific, so in our new pre-print arxiv.org/abs/2402.01502, Alan Jeffares & I investigate..🕵🏼♀️ 1/n
