The core idea is that of "the wisdom of the corwd", such that if many trees vote for a given class (having being trained on different subsets of the training set), that class is probably the true class. Random Forest is just many Decision Trees joined together in a voting scheme. How much large? It will depend on the flash size available: many new generations board (Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense, ESP32, ST Nucleus.) have 1 Mb of flash, which will hold tens of thousands of splits. Since program space is often much greater than RAM on microcontrollers, this implementation exploits its abundance to be able to deploy larger models. On the other side, the program space will grow almost linearly with the number of splits. Here's what it looks like for a Decision tree that classifies the Iris dataset.Īs you can see, we're using 0 bytes of RAM to get the classification result, since no variable is being allocated.
Since we're willing to sacrifice program space (a.k.a flash) in favor of memory (a.k.a RAM), because RAM is the most scarce resource in the vast majority of microcontrollers, the smart way to port a Decision Tree classifier from Python to C is "hard-coding" the splits in code, without keeping any reference to them into variables. To an introduction visit Wikipedia for a more in-depth guide visit KDNuggets. I won't go into the details of how a Decision Tree classifier trains and selects the splits for the input features: here I will explain how a RAM-efficient porting of such a classifier is implemented. It is so simple to understand that it was probably the first classifier you encountered in any Machine Learning course.
You will be surprised by how much accuracy you can achieve in just a few kylobytes of resources: Decision Tree, Random Forest and XGBoost (Extreme Gradient Boosting) are now available on your microcontrollers: highly RAM-optmized implementations for super-fast classification on embedded devices.ĭecision Tree is without doubt one of the most well-known classification algorithms out there.
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