Isolation Forest (Anomaly Detection)
Isolation forest is an anomaly detection algorithm. It isolates observations by creating a Random Forest of trees, each splitting samples in different partitions. Anomalies tend to have much shorter paths from the root of the tree. Thus, the mean distance from the root provides a good measure of non-normality.
Number of trees in the forest.
Expected proportion of anomalies in the data.
Number of samples to draw to build each tree (recommended to leave at 256).
Maximum number of anomalies to display in the model report. Too high a number may cause memory and UI problems.