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[ML] Stopping criterion on adding new trees to the forest

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Description

When training a new forest, we usually observe a property of diminishing returns from adding new trees. We can use this property to develop a stopping criterion to accelerate forest training. The idea is to find a parametric model that describes the dependency of the error curve on the number of trees in the forest, fit this curve to the current error when training a forest and identify when the curve starts to "flatten." This point is used to stop adding new trees.

### Subtasks

- [ ] Instrument the benchmark suite to collect a dataset with error curves from training forests (label each curve with the dataset it was collected from)

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