FasterForest library

A streamlined version of Fran Supeks's FastRandomForest. Compared to FastRandomForest it uses around 75% time and 50% memory.

Does not support nominal attributes and missing values.

FasterForest2

Added FasterForest2 based on FastRandomForest 2.0 (https://github.com/GenomeDataScience/FastRandomForest).

FasterForest

Now in its own repo with mavenized gradle build.

Old readme notes:

FastRandomForest v0.9

Contents:

What is FastRandomForest?
License
Using from own Java code
Using from Weka Explorer or Experimenter (3-5-7 or earlier)
Using from Weka Explorer or Experimenter (3-5-8 or newer)

What is FastRandomForest?

FastRandomForest is a re-implementation of the Random Forest classifier (RF) for the Weka environment that brings speed and memory use improvements over the original Weka RF, without sacrificing accuracy.

Speed gains depend on many factors, but a 10-20x increase on a quad-core desktop computer is not uncommon, along with a 2x reduction in memory use.

For detailed tests of speed and classification accuracy, as well as description of changes to the code, please refer to the FastRandomForest wiki at

http://code.google.com/p/fast-random-forest/w

or email the author at fran.supek[AT]irb.hr.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Using from own Java code

Just add FastRandomForest.jar to your Java VM classpath by using the -cp switch, or by changing project dependencies in NetBeans/Eclipse/whatever IDE you use. Then use hr.irb.fastRandomForest.FastRandomForest as you would use any other classifier, see instructions at the WekaWiki:

http://weka.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Use_Weka_in_your_Java_code

Using from Weka Explorer or Experimenter (3-5-8 or newer)

Add the FastRandomForest.jar to your Java classpath when starting Weka. This is normally done by editing the line beginning with “cp=” in “RunWeka.ini”
You extract the “GenericObjectEditor.props” file from weka.jar (jar files are in fact ordinary zip archives, the GenericObjectEditor.props is under /weka/gui).
Place the file you've just extracted into the directory where you have installed Weka (on Windows this is commonly "C:\Program Files\Weka-3-5")
Find the
- Lists the Classifiers I want to choose from

heading and scroll far down to the end of the block (first empty line), then add a line:

 hr.irb.fastRandomForest.FastRandomForest

Do not forget to append a comma and a backslash to the previous line.

The “FastRandomForest” class is in the "hr.irb.fastRandomForest" package in the "Classify" tab. Enjoy.

Using from Weka Explorer or Experimenter (3-5-7 or earlier)

Add the FastRandomForest.jar to your Java classpath when starting Weka. This is normally done by editing the line beginning with “cp=” in “RunWeka.ini” If "cp=" doesn't exist, search for "cmd_default=" and add after "#wekajar#;".
You need to extract the “GenericPropertiesCreator.props” file from your weka.jar (jar files are in fact ordinary zip archives, the GenericPropertiesCreator.props is under /weka/gui).
Place the file you've just extracted into the directory where you have installed Weka (on Windows this is commonly "C:\Program Files\Weka-3-5")
Under the
- Lists the Classifiers-Packages I want to choose from

heading, add the line

 hr.irb.fastRandomForest

Do not forget to add a comma and a backslash to the previous line.

Use the “FastRandomForest” class is in the hr.irb.fastRandomForest package in the "Classify" tab. The other three classes cannot be used directly.

rdk/FasterForest