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Pruning Classifiers in a Distributed Meta-Learning System

Prodromidis, Andreas L.; Stolfo, Salvatore

JAM is a powerful and portable agent-based distributed data mining system that employs meta-learning techniques to integrate a number of independent classifiers (models) derived in parallel from independent and (possibly) inherently distributed databases. Although meta-learning promotes scalability and accuracy in a simple and straightforward manner, brute force meta-learning techniques can result in large, redundant, inefficient and some times inaccurate meta-classifier hierarchies. In this paper we explore several methods for evaluating classifiers and composing meta-classifiers, we expose their limitations and we demonstrate that meta-learning combined with certain pruning methods has the potential to achieve similar or even better performance results in a much more cost effective manner.

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Computer Science
Publisher
Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
Series
Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports, CUCS-011-98
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April 25, 2011