SPAARC: A Fast Decision Tree Algorithm

Autor: Darren Yates, Junbin Gao, Zahidul Islam
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Communications in Computer and Information Science ISBN: 9789811366604
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6661-1_4
Popis: Decision trees are a popular method of data-mining and knowledge discovery, capable of extracting hidden information from datasets consisting of both nominal and numerical attributes. However, their need to test the suitability of every attribute at every tree node, in addition to testing every possible split-point for every numerical attribute can be expensive computationally, particularly for datasets with high dimensionality. This paper proposes a method for speeding up the decision tree induction process called SPAARC, consisting of two components to address these issues – sampling of the numeric attribute tree-node split-points and dynamically adjusting the node attribute selection space. Further, these methods can be applied to almost any decision tree algorithm. To confirm its validity, SPAARC has been tested and compared against an implementation of the CART algorithm using 18 freely-available datasets from the UCI data repository. Results from this testing indicate the two components of SPAARC combined have minimal effect on decision tree classification accuracy yet reduce model build times by as much as 69%.
Databáze: OpenAIRE