An empirical comparison of ID3 and back-propagation

  • Authors:
  • Douglas H. Fisher;Kathleen B. McKusick

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN;Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

AI and connectionist approaches to learning from examples differ in knowledge-base representation and inductive mechanisms. To explore these differences we experiment with a system from each paradigm: ID3 and back-propagation. We compare the systems on the basis of both prediction accuracy and length of training. The systems show distinct performance differences across a variety of domains. We identify aspects of each system that may account for these performance differences. Finally, we suggest paths for cross-paradigm interaction.