A divide-and-conquer discretization algorithm

Authors:
Fan Min;Lijun Xie;Qihe Liu;Hongbin Cai
Affiliations:
College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China;College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China;College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China;College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
Venue:
FSKD'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery - Volume Part I
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The problem of real value attribute discretization can be converted into the reduct problem in the Rough Set Theory, which is NP-hard and can be solved by some heuristic algorithms. In this paper we show that the straightforward conversion is not scalable and propose a divide-and-conquer algorithm. This algorithm is fully scalable and can reduce the time complexity dramatically especially while integrated with the tournament discretization algorithm. Parallel versions of this algorithm can be easily written, and their complexity depends on the number of objects in each subtable rather than the number of objects in the initial decision table. There is a tradeoff between the time complexity and the quality of the discretization scheme obtained, and this tradeoff can be made through adjusting the number of subtables, or equivalently, the number of objects in each subtable. Experimental results confirm our analysis and indicate appropriate parameter setting.