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RFX-Fuse: Breiman and Cutler's Unified ML Engine + Native Explainable Similarity

arXiv 2603.13234 ↗First posted 27 Jan 2026cs.LG stat.MLcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Breiman and Cutler's original Random Forest was designed as a unified ML engine -- not merely an ensemble predictor. Their implementation included classification, regression, unsupervised learning, proximity-based similarity, outlier detection, missing value imputation, and visualization -- capabilities that modern libraries like scikit-learn never implemented. RFX-Fuse (Random Forests X [X=compression] -- Forest Unified Learning and Similarity Engine) delivers Breiman and Cutler's complete vision with native GPU/CPU support. Modern ML pipelines require 5+ separate tools -- XGBoost for prediction, FAISS for similarity, SHAP for explanations, Isolation Forest for outliers, custom code for importance. RFX-Fuse provides a 1 to 2 model object alternative -- a single set of trees grown once. Novel Contributions: (1) Proximity Importance -- native explainable similarity: proximity measures that samples are similar; proximity importance explains why. (2) Dataset-specific imputation validation for general tabular data -- ranking imputation methods by how real the imputed data looks, without ground truth labels.

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  1. 2017A Unified Approach to Interpreting Model Predictionscited by 6,555
  2. 2016XGBoost: A Scalable Tree Boosting Systemcited by 5,166
  3. 2017Billion-scale similarity search with GPUscited by 2,497
  4. 2025Evaluation of Missing Data Imputation for Time Series Without Ground Truthcited by 2
  5. 2025RFX: High-Performance Random Forests with GPU Acceleration and QLORA Compressioncited by 2

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