What I Read: Random Forests, Estimation of Information-Theoretic Quantities

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.00325v7

Random Forests for Adaptive Nearest Neighbor Estimation of Information-Theoretic Quantities
Ronan Perry, Ronak Mehta, Richard Guo, Eva Yezerets, Jesús Arroyo, Mike Powell, Hayden Helm, Cencheng Shen, Joshua T. Vogelstein


“We propose decision forest-based adaptive nearest neighbor estimators and show that they are able to effectively estimate posterior probabilities, conditional entropies, and mutual information…”