J-measure based pruning for advancing classification performance of information entropy based rule generation

Han Liu, Mihaela Cocea, Weili Ding

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Abstract

Learning of classification rules is a popular approach of machine learning, which can be achieved through two strategies, namely divide-and-conquer and separate-and-conquer. The former is aimed at generating rules in the form of a decision tree, whereas the latter generates if-then rules directly from training data. From this point of view, the above two strategies are referred to as decision tree learning and rule learning, respectively. Both learning strategies can lead to production of complex rule based classifiers that overfit training data, which has motivated researchers to develop pruning algorithms towards reduction of overfitting. In this paper, we propose a J-measure based pruning algorithm, which is referred to as Jmean-pruning. The proposed pruning algorithm is used to advance the performance of the information entropy based rule generation method that follows the separate and conquer strategy. An experimental study is reported to show how Jmean-pruning can effectively help the above rule learning method avoid overfitting. The results show that the use of Jmean-pruning achieves to advance the performance of the rule learning method and the improved performance is very comparable or even considerably better than the one of C4.5.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages485-490
Number of pages6
Volume2
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5386-5214-5
ISBN (Print)978-1-5386-5215-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 Nov 2018
Event2018 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics - http://www.icmlc.com/icmlc/welcome.html, Chengdu, China
Duration: 15 Jul 201818 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC)
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Print)2160-133X
ISSN (Electronic)2160-1348

Conference

Conference2018 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Abbreviated titleICMLC 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChengdu
Period15/07/1818/07/18

Keywords

  • Machine learning
  • Decision tree learning
  • Rule learning
  • Rule pruning
  • J-measure

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