A new classification method to overcome over-branching

  • Authors:
  • Zhou Aoying;Qian Weining;Qian Hailei;Jin Wen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, P.R. China;Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Classification is an important technique in data mining. The decision trees built by most of the existing classification algorithms commonly feature over-branching, which will lead to poor efficiency iu the subsequent classification period. In this paper, we present a new value-oriented classification method, which aims at building accurately proper-sized decision trees while reducing over-branching as much as possible, based on the concepts of frequent-pattern-node and exceptive-child-node. The experiments show that while using relevant analysis as pre-processing, our classification method, without loss of accuracy, can eliminate the over-branching greatly in decision trees more effectively and efficiently than other algorithms do.