MAI4CAREU - Machine Learning: Trees and Forests

The University of Cyprus's MSc Artificial Intelligence is part of the Master programmes in Artificial Intelligence 4 Careers in Europe (MAI4CAREU). One of Master's programme's courses, MAI612 - Machine Learning is split up into several lectures. Taught by Vassilis Vassiliades, PhD, the sixth lecture of the MAI612 - Machine Learning course focuses on Trees and Forests.

Learning outcomes

• How decision tree models work
• How to train decision trees using the concepts of entropy and information gain
• How to use continuous variables in decision trees
• Classification and regression trees
• Why ensembles of models can achieve lower generalization errors
• Ensemble methods such as bagging, random forests, boosting, XGBoost and stacking