concept random patch in category machine learning

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These include bagging variants such as pasting, random subspaces and random patches and an extreme random forest variant called ExtraTrees. All these methods introduce randomization in different ways in order to ensure ensemble diversity.

Figure 2.9 Bagging compared to random subspaces and random patches.