> So, yes, comparing things to gigantic trees can make things tough. But I thought that was the beauty of boosting and building up smaller trees. Most of them a

> So, yes, comparing things to gigantic trees can make things tough. But I thought that was the beauty of boosting and building up smaller trees. Most of them are usually more interpretable than you might expect. Regarding your last paragraph, I found this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.07676.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.07676.pdf worth reading. Excerpt from the abstract: "We conclude that boosting should be used like random forests: with large decision trees and without direct regularization or early stopping."