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Mixed-curvature decision trees and random forests
Philippe Chlenski, Quentin Chu, Raiyan R. Khan, Kaizhu Du, Antonio Khalil Moretti, Itsik Pe'er
Decision trees (DTs) and their random forest (RF) extensions are workhorses of classification and regression in Euclidean spaces. However, algorithms for learning in non-Euclidean spaces are still limited. We extend DT and RF algorithms to product manifolds: Cartesian products of several hyperbolic, hyperspherical, or Euclidean components. Such manifolds handle heterogeneous curvature while still factorizing neatly into simpler components, making them compelling embedding spaces for complex datasets. Our novel angular reformulation of DTs respects the geometry of the product manifold, yielding splits that are geodesically convex, maximum-margin, and composable. In the special cases of single-component manifolds, our method simplifies to its Euclidean or hyperbolic counterparts, or introduces hyperspherical DT algorithms, depending on the curvature. We benchmark our method on various classification, regression, and link prediction tasks on synthetic data, graph embeddings, mixed-curvature variational autoencoder latent spaces, and empirical data. Compared to 7 other classifiers, product RFs ranked first on 25 out of 57 benchmarks, and placed in the top 2 for 46 out of 57. This highlights the value of product RFs as straightforward yet powerful new tools for data analysis in product manifolds. Code for our paper is available at https://github.com/pchlenski/manify.
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