Skip to content

RFAE

Autoencoding Random Forests

v0.1.0 · Jan 17, 2026 · GPL (>= 3)

Description

Autoencoding Random Forests ('RFAE') provide a method to autoencode mixed-type tabular data using Random Forests ('RF'), which involves projecting the data to a latent feature space of user-chosen dimensionality (usually a lower dimension), and then decoding the latent representations back into the input space. The encoding stage is useful for feature engineering and data visualisation tasks, akin to how principal component analysis ('PCA') is used, and the decoding stage is useful for compression and denoising tasks. At its core, 'RFAE' is a post-processing pipeline on a trained random forest model. This means that it can accept any trained RF of 'ranger' object type: 'RF', 'URF' or 'ARF'. Because of this, it inherits Random Forests' robust performance and capacity to seamlessly handle mixed-type tabular data. For more details, see Vu et al. (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.21441>.

Downloads

144

Last 30 days

21817th

144

Last 90 days

144

Last year

CRAN Check Status

14 OK
Show all 14 flavors
Flavor Status
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-macos-arm64 OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-linux-x86_64 OK
r-release-macos-arm64 OK
r-release-macos-x86_64 OK
r-release-windows-x86_64 OK
Check details (14 non-OK)
OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

*


            
OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

*


            
OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

*


            
OK r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

*


            
OK r-devel-macos-arm64

*


            
OK r-devel-windows-x86_64

*


            
OK r-oldrel-macos-arm64

*


            
OK r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

*


            
OK r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

*


            
OK r-patched-linux-x86_64

*


            
OK r-release-linux-x86_64

*


            
OK r-release-macos-arm64

*


            
OK r-release-macos-x86_64

*


            
OK r-release-windows-x86_64

*


            

Check History

OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies caret data.table foreach Matrix mgcv ranger RANN RSpectra tibble RFAE

Version History

new 0.1.0 Mar 10, 2026