Topic 2.3 of Supervised Learning for Cybersecurity

Random Forests: Many Imperfect Trees Vote

How a random forest trains many trees on random samples and feature subsets and lets them vote, a real decision-surface chart over engineered URL features, and the Endpoint Protection Goes Statistical case study including the 2019 Cylance bypass.

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By the end of this topic, you will

Explain why a random forest typically outperforms any single tree it contains
Train a RandomForestClassifier and tune its two most important hyperparameters
Summarise the Cylance bypass case study and the new failure mode statistical classifiers introduced

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Random Forests: Many Imperfect Trees Vote

No individual tree in a random forest needs to be excellent. The forest's accuracy comes from each tree's errors being only weakly correlated, so averaging cancels most of the noise.

Random Forests: Many Imperfect Trees Vote

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