<p>Yes, the regularization which is typically done on decision trees which makes the leaves non-pure is not needed in random forests due to the structure of the algorithm.</p>

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<p>I am trying to understand the basics of random forest machine learning applied to vegetation classification. Do I understand correctly that the output/leaf node of each individual decision tree contains a single class?</p>

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Does a Random Forest leaf give a specific output for a specific class in a multi class random forest
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# Does a Random Forest leaf give a specific output for a specific class in a multi class random forest

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-04-18)

I am trying to understand the basics of random forest machine learning applied to vegetation classification. Do I understand correctly that the output/leaf node of each individual decision tree contains a single class?

**Tags:** multiclass-classification, random-forests


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### Answer by username_1 on 2024-04-18. Score: 1

Yes, the regularization which is typically done on decision trees which makes the leaves non-pure is not needed in random forests due to the structure of the algorithm.


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