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Question

Random Forest - Can you have too many trees in a random forest?

Answer

In random woodlands, overfitting does not occur. You can run as many trees as you want. The bird takes flight. On a dataset with one hundred variables and fifty thousand instances, it took eleven minutes on an 800Mhz CPU to produce one hundred trees.