Growing Simpler Decision Trees to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery

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Summary

A new algorithm, SET-GEN, is introduced that improves the comprehensibility of decision trees grown by standard C4.5 without reducing accuracy by using genetic search to select the set of input features C 4.5 is allowed to use to build its tree.

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Published
1996-08-02
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Keywords

Decision tree, Computer science, Set (abstract data type), Machine learning, Artificial intelligence

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