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Optimizing Random Forest using Genetic Algorithm

User: "chak67"
New Altair Community Member
Updated by Jocelyn
Hi everyone,

I would like to ask about  classifier using Genetic Algorithm. I have a process in rapidminer like the attached XML but I'm not sure whether what I am doing is right or wrong.

Thank you
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    User: "BalazsBaranyRM"
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    Hi,

    what is your goal with this process? Feature weighting/optimization (the PSO operator) is already being done by Random Forest. The feature generation can help if you suspect that your data contain "hidden" combinations of attributes that you don't know of.

    The best way to validate the process that builds your models is to put everything into an outer validation, e. g. a Cross Validation.
    Inside the training of this outer validation process you can try further optimizations like feature generation, feature selection (but with tree-based methods that are already about feature selection that won't help a lot) or parameter optimization. Inside all optimization operators you will need another (inner) validation process. 

    Regards,
    Balázs