Feature importance from tree models helps practitioners:

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Identify influential features for debugging, pruning, and stakeholder explanation (with caveats) — Importances guide debugging and pruning — not automatic causal proof.

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Guarantee causal treatment effects without design

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Replace all domain knowledge

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Set Unity Catalog storage locations

Feature importance from tree models helps practitioners:

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