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Neural Networks are Decision Trees — mentioned by smokel

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:59:18 GMT

> single bit neural networks are decision trees. I didn't exactly understood what was meant here, so I went out and read a little. There is an interesting paper called "Neural Networks are Decision Trees" [1]. Thing is, this does not imply a nice mapping of neural networks onto decision trees. The trees that correspond to the neural networks are huge. And I get the idea that the paper is stretching the concept of decision trees a bit. Also, I still don't know exactly what you mean, so would you care to elaborate a bit? :) [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.05189

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Neural Networks are Decision Trees — mentioned by sitkack

Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:10:48 GMT

There is some work to convert NNs to decision trees. https://towardsdatascience.com/neural-networks-as-decision-t... https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05189 I haven't reviewed any of it, I only know of it tangentially. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Converting-A-Trained-N... Distilling a Neural Network Into a Soft Decision Tree https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.09784 GradTree: Learning Axis-Aligned Decision Trees with Gradient Descent https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03515

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Neural Networks are Decision Trees — mentioned by hprotagonist

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:03:36 GMT

> It's not AI it's an IF statement for crying out loud :-( https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.05189 but all NNs _are_ if statements!

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Neural Networks are Decision Trees — HN submission

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:18:16 GMT

Neural Networks Are Decision Trees

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Neural Networks are Decision Trees — HN submission

Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:43:27 GMT

Neural Networks Are Decision Trees

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Neural Networks are Decision Trees — HN submission

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 06:28:28 GMT

Neural Networks Are Decision Trees

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Neural Networks are Decision Trees — HN submission

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:57:00 GMT

Neural Networks Are Decision Trees

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