Differentiable Decision Tree via "ReLU+Argmin" Reformulation

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Authors: Qiangqiang Mao, Jiayang Ren, Yixiu Wang, Chenxuanyin Zou, Jingjing Zheng, Yankai Cao
Venue: NeurIPS 2025
Track: Spotlight

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Decision tree, despite its unmatched interpretability and lightweight structure, faces two key issues that limit its broader applicability: non-differentiability and low testing accuracy…

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