Extra Trees Classifier — it is an ensemble learning technique that combines the results of several uncorrelated decision trees collected in a “forest” to produce classification results. It is very similar in concept to the random forest classifier and differs from it only in the way it builds decision trees in the forest.
Each Decision Tree in the Additional Trees Forest is built from the original training pattern. Then, at each test node, each tree is given a random sample of k features from a set of functions, from which each decision tree must choose the best feature to partition the data based on some mathematical criteria (usually the Gini index). This random sample of features results in many uncorrelated decision trees.
To perform feature selection using the above forest structure, when constructing the forest, for each feature, the overall decrease in the mathematical criteria used to determine the partition function (index Gini, if the Gini index is used when constructing the forest) is calculated. This value is called Gini Function Importance. To perform feature selection, each feature is ordered in descending order according to the Gini importance of each feature, and the user selects the best k features according to their choice.
Consider the following data:
Let’s build a hypothetical Additional Trees Forest for the above data with five decision trees and a value of k , which decides that the number of objects in a random sample of objects is two . Here, information collection will be used as a decision-making criterion. First, let’s calculate the entropy of the data. Pay attention to the formula for calculating entropy:
where c — the number of unique class labels and 
the proportion of rows with an output label is i.
Therefore, for data data entropy :
Let the decision trees be built so that:
Note that the formula for getting information is:
So
Also:
Using the above formulas: —
Calculate general information ion gain for each function: —
Total Info Gain for Outlook = 0.246 + 0.246 = 0.492 Total Info Gain for Temperature = 0.029 + 0.029 + 0.029 = 0.087 Total Info Gain for Humidity = 0.151 + 0.151 + 0.151 = 0.453 Total Info Gain for Wind = 0.048 + 0.048 = 0.096
Thus, the most important variable for determining the output label in accordance with the forest built above is additional trees is the Outlook function.
The code below demonstrates how to select objects using additional tree classifiers.
Step 1: Import required libraries
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Step 2: Loading and Clearing Data
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Step 3: Build a forest of additional trees and calculate the values of individual functions
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Step 4: Visualize and compare results
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Thus, the above output confirms our theory of object selection using the Extra Trees Classifier. The importance of objects can have different meanings due to the random nature of the samples of objects.
