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Avi Chawla
Oct 10, 2024
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The underlying mathematical details.

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Aditya Modak
Oct 11

A detailed explanation here - https://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/ensemble.html#feature-importance-evaluation

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Oct 11

For readers interested in the cons and an alternative - https://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/generated/sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeRegressor.html#sklearn.tree.DecisionTreeRegressor.feature_importances_

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Aditya Modak
Oct 10

Great post as always Avi. A small note of pros and cons of this feature importance would have been great 😉

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