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What is Random Forest and how does it reduce overfitting?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Random Forest is an ensemble of decision trees that reduces overfitting using bagging and feature randomness.
Deep explanation
Random Forest builds multiple decision trees using bootstrapped samples and random feature selection. Predictions are aggregated via majority vote or averaging. This decorrelation between trees reduces variance and prevents overfitting compared to a single decision tree.
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