<p>In <a href="https://github.com/mlpack/mlpack/pull/746#discussion_r75754866">src/mlpack/core/tree/cellbound_impl.hpp</a>:</p>
<pre style='color:#555'>&gt; +void CellBound&lt;MetricType, ElemType&gt;::AddBound(
&gt; +    const arma::Col&lt;ElemType&gt;&amp; loCorner,
&gt; +    const arma::Col&lt;ElemType&gt;&amp; hiCorner)
&gt; +{
&gt; +  assert(numBounds &lt; loBound.n_cols);
&gt; +  assert(loBound.n_rows == dim);
&gt; +  assert(loCorner.n_elem == dim);
&gt; +  assert(hiCorner.n_elem == dim);
&gt; +
&gt; +  // If the subrectangle is not contained entirely in the outer rectangle,
&gt; +  // we shrink it.
&gt; +  for (size_t k = 0; k &lt; dim; k++)
&gt; +  {
&gt; +    loBound(k, numBounds) = std::max(loCorner[k], bounds[k].Lo());
&gt; +
&gt; +    hiBound(k, numBounds) = std::min(bounds[k].Hi(), hiCorner[k]);
</pre>
<p>I believe what you are doing here is, if possible, shrinking one of the UB hyperrectangles down using the minimum point-enclosing hyperrectangle. But I believe you could get a tighter bound if you instead iterated over all points, using only those that fall into this UB hyperrectangle, in order to shrink the UB hyperrectangle.  I guess it is easier to demonstrate what I mean with code...</p>

<pre><code>math::Range r(loCorner[k], hiCorner[k]);
for (size_t j = 0; j &lt; data.n_cols; ++j)
{
  if (hyperrectangle contains data.col(j))
  {
    r.Lo() = std::max(r.Lo(), data(k, j));
    r.Hi() = std::min(r.Hi(), data(k, j));
  }
}
</code></pre>

<p>The handling will become a little more tricky for operator|=(), but I believe this should help make the bounds tighter and decrease runtime. Let me know if I can clarify what I mean.</p>

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