Discretization from data streams: applications to histograms and data mining

  • Authors:
  • João Gama;Carlos Pinto

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. do Porto, Porto, Portugal;Univ. do Algarve, Porto, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a new method to perform incremental discretization. The basic idea is to perform the task in two layers. The first layer receives the sequence of input data and keeps some statistics on the data using many more intervals than required. Based on the statistics stored by the first layer, the second layer creates the final discretization. The proposed architecture processes streaming examples in a single scan, in constant time and space even for infinite sequences of examples. We experimentally demonstrate that incremental discretization is able to maintain the performance of learning algorithms in comparison to a batch discretization. The proposed method is much more appropriate in incremental learning, and in problems where data flows continuously, as in most of the recent data mining applications.