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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Rodríguez Diez, Juan José author Juez Gil, Mario author López Nozal, Carlos author Arnaiz González, Álvar author 2022-02 The prediction of multiple numeric outputs at the same time is called multi-target regression (MTR), and it has gained attention during the last decades. This task is a challenging research topic in supervised learning because it poses additional difficulties to traditional single-target regression (STR), and many real-world problems involve the prediction of multiple targets at once. One of the most successful approaches to deal with MTR, although not the only one, consists in transforming the problem in several STR problems, whose outputs will be combined building up the MTR output. In this paper, the Rotation Forest ensemble method, previously proposed for single-label classification and single-target regression, is adapted to MTR tasks and tested with several regressors and data sets. Our proposal rotates the input space in an efficient and novel fashion, avoiding extra rotations forced by MTR problem decomposition. Four approaches for MTR are used: single-target (ST), stacked-single target (SST), Ensembles of Regressor Chains (ERC), and Multi-target Regression via Quantization (MRQ). For assessing the benefits of the proposal, a thorough experimentation with 28 MTR data sets and statistical tests are used, concluding that Rotation Forest, adapted by means of these approaches, outperforms other popular ensembles, such as Bagging and Random Forest. 1868-8071 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6645 10.1007/s13042-021-01329-1 1868-808X Multi-target regression Ensemble Rotation Forest Rotation Forest for multi-target regression