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		Autoencoding Random Forests // Autoencoding Random Forests
		('RFAE') provide a method to autoencode mixed-type tabular data
		using Random Forests ('RF'), which involves projecting the data
		to a latent feature space of user-chosen dimensionality
		(usually a lower dimension), and then decoding the latent
		representations back into the input space. The encoding stage
		is useful for feature engineering and data visualisation tasks,
		akin to how principal component analysis ('PCA') is used, and
		the decoding stage is useful for compression and denoising
		tasks. At its core, 'RFAE' is a post-processing pipeline on a
		trained random forest model. This means that it can accept any
		trained RF of 'ranger' object type: 'RF', 'URF' or 'ARF'.
		Because of this, it inherits Random Forests' robust performance
		and capacity to seamlessly handle mixed-type tabular data. For
		more details, see Vu et al. (2025)
		doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.21441.
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