Towards Simple, Easy-to-Understand, yet Accurate Classifiers

  • Authors:
  • Doina Caragea;Dianne Cook;Vasant G. Honavar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '03 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We design a method for weighting linear support vectormachine classifiers or random hyperplanes, to obtain classifierswhose accuracy is comparable to the accuracy of anon-linear support vector machine classifier, and whose resultscan be readily visualized. We conduct a simulationstudy to examine how our weighted linear classifiers behavein the presence of known structure. The results show thatthe weighted linear classifiers might perform well comparedto the non-linear support vector machine classifiers, whilethey are more readily interpretable than the non-linear classifiers.