Decision trees that remember: Gradient-based learning of recurrent decision trees with memory


Marton, Sascha ; Schneider, Moritz ; Brinkmann, Jannik ; Lüdtke, Stefan ; Bartelt, Christian ; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner


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URL: https://openreview.net/forum?id=u2Hh24rxW1&noteId=...
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-695074
Document Type: Conference or workshop publication
Year of publication: 2025
Book title: The Thirteens International Conference on Learning Representations
Conference title: New Frontiers in Associative Memory workshop at ICLR 2025
Location of the conference venue: Singapore, Republic of Singapore
Date of the conference: 28.04.2025
Publishing house: OpenReview.net
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Publication language: English
Institution: Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Institut für Enterprise Systems (InES)
School of Business Informatics and Mathematics > Practical Computer Science II: Artificial Intelligence (Stuckenschmidt 2009-)
Pre-existing license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Subject: 004 Computer science, internet
Keywords (English): decision tree , sequential data , time series data , recurrent decision tree
Abstract: Neural architectures such as Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Transformers, and State-Space Models have shown great success in handling sequential data by learning temporal dependencies. Decision Trees (DTs), on the other hand, remain a widely used class of models for structured tabular data but are typically not designed to capture sequential patterns directly. Instead, DT-based approaches for time-series data often rely on feature engineering, such as manually incorporating lag features, which can be suboptimal for capturing complex temporal dependencies. To address this limitation, we introduce ReMeDe Trees, a novel recurrent decision tree architecture that integrates an internal memory mechanism, similar to RNNs, to learn long-term dependencies in sequential data. Our model learns hard, axis-aligned decision rules for both output generation and state updates, optimizing them efficiently via gradient descent. We provide a proof-of-concept study on synthetic benchmarks to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.




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