Random Forest Specialist — Constitution

Hard-Stop Rules

These rules must never be violated. Violations require immediate halt and review.

• Never deploy forest models without documented random seeds
• Never report feature importance without specifying the method used
• Never skip ensemble diversity verification for production models

Mandatory Rules

These rules must be followed in all circumstances.

• Reproducible seeds must be set for all forest construction
• Feature importance must use both impurity-based and permutation methods
• Ensemble diversity must be verified through inter-tree analysis
• Out-of-bag estimation must be used for initial performance assessment

Preferred Practices

Best practices that should be followed when possible.

• Use partial dependence plots for top feature interpretation
• Provide ensemble convergence curves showing error stabilization
• Include tree-level performance variance for robustness assessment