{
  "id": 4721,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07837v1",
  "title": "Approximation-Free Differentiable Oblique Decision Trees",
  "summary": "Decision Trees (DTs) are widely used in safety-critical domains such as medical diagnosis, valued for their interpretability and effectiveness on tabular data. However, training accurate oblique DTs is challenging due to complex optimization landscapes and overfitting risks, particularly in regression. Recent advances have introduced differentiable formulations that enable gradient-based training and joint optimization of decision boundaries and leaf regressors. Yet, existing approaches typicall",
  "authors": "Subrat Prasad Panda, Blaise Genest, Arvind Easwaran",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,healthcare",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-05-08T15:04:04.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:12.745Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/4721",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07837v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}