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	<longdescription>
		Improving Interaction Modelling and Interpretability in Random
		Forests // Implementation of the unity forest (UFO) framework
		(Hornung  Hapfelmeier, 2026, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2601.07003).
		UFOs are a random forest variant designed to better take
		covariates with purely interaction-based effects into account,
		including interactions for which none of the involved
		covariates exhibits a marginal effect. While this framework
		tends to improve discrimination and predictive accuracy
		compared to standard random forests, it also facilitates the
		identification and interpretation of (marginal or interactive)
		effects: In addition to the UFO algorithm for tree
		construction, the package includes the unity variable
		importance measure (unity VIM), which quantifies covariate
		effects under the conditions in which they are strongest -
		either marginally or within subgroups defined by interactions -
		as well as covariate-representative tree roots (CRTRs) that
		provide interpretable visualizations of these conditions.
		Categorical and continuous outcomes are supported. This package
		is a fork of the R package 'ranger' (main author: Marvin N.
		Wright), which implements random forests using an efficient C++
		backend.
	</longdescription>
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