Sizing Random Forest's Feature Subsampling
A random forest at Ardwick Mutual stops its trees turning into copies of each other by hiding most of the features from each of them. Every time a tree reaches a point where it has to decide what to split its claims on, it is shown only a random handful of the available features and has to pick from those — so one dominant feature cannot head every tree in the forest. How large that handful is comes from a fraction of the feature total, set once for the whole forest. However small the fraction, a tree can never be left with nothing to choose between.
Task: Print how many features a tree gets to choose from at each split.
Input
One line holding two values separated by a single space: the total number of features as a whole number, then the fraction, a number between 0 and 1.
Output
One line holding the number of features considered at a split. The fraction of the total is cut down to a whole number of features by discarding everything after the decimal point, not by rounding to the nearest and not by rounding up — a handful working out at 2.8 features is 2 features. If that leaves none at all, one feature is considered instead.
Example:
Input:
100 0.25
Output:
25
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