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Optimizing Random Forest with Apache Spark: A Survey on Distributed Machine Learning and Big Data Scalability

2025· article· en· W4412689102 on OpenAlexaff
Zixiang Yan

Bibliographic record

VenueTheory and Practice of Science and Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMachine Learning and Data Classification
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSPARK (programming language)ScalabilityBig dataRandom forestComputer scienceDatabaseOperating systemData scienceDistributed computingMachine learningProgramming language

Abstract

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Current trends have contributed to the rapid development of Big Data Processing Technologies. As one of the first variants of machine learning algorithms, random forests have exceptional classification and elaboration characteristics. The field of application in many applications has gradually expanded, and traditional random forests have been threatened, especially in large-scale data set processing. The scope of application is limited, and high computational costs and long training time are especially important. As a distributed computing-based platform in RAM, Apache Spark can optimize the learning speed and cost of developing random noise algorithms in a big data environment. This article discusses the random noise optimization strategy based on Apache Spark.it not only deals with parallel computing, but also discusses the techniques of object selection optimization and model improvement. At the same time, it outlines the latest achievements in the field of random forest optimization based on Spark and considers possible directions of its further development.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.018

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0010.004
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.309
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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