Soft decision trees

O Irsoy, OT Yıldız, E Alpaydın - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss a novel decision tree architecture with soft decisions at the internal nodes where
we choose both children with probabilities given by a sigmoid gating function. Our algorithm …

Random decision forests

TK Ho - Proceedings of 3rd international conference on …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decision trees are attractive classifiers due to their high execution speed. But trees derived
with traditional methods often cannot be grown to arbitrary complexity for possible loss of …

Research and application of the improved algorithm C4. 5 on decision tree

Z Xiaoliang, Y Hongcan, W Jian… - … Conference on Test …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The algorithm on Decision tree is the most widely used method of inductive inference, and it
is a simple method of knowledge representation, Different examples can be divided into …

Evolving decision trees using oracle guides

U Johansson, L Niklasson - 2009 IEEE Symposium on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Some data mining problems require predictive models to be not only accurate but also
comprehensible. Comprehensibility enables human inspection and understanding of the …

An FPGA implementation of decision tree classification

R Narayanan, D Honbo, G Memik… - … , Automation & Test …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data mining techniques are a rapidly emerging class of applications that have widespread
use in several fields. One important problem in data mining is classification, which is the task …

C4. 5 decision forests

TK Ho - … international conference on pattern recognition (cat …, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Much of previous attention on decision trees focuses on the splitting criteria and optimization
of tree sizes. The dilemma between overfitting and achieving maximum accuracy is seldom …

Effective estimation of posterior probabilities: Explaining the accuracy of randomized decision tree approaches

W Fan, E Greengrass, J McCloskey… - … Conference on Data …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There has been increasing number of independently proposed randomization methods in
different stages of decision tree construction to build multiple trees. Randomized decision …

Could decision trees improve the classification accuracy and interpretability of loan granting decisions?

J Zurada - 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper compares the classification performance rate of eight models: logistic regression
(LR), neural network (NN), radial basis function neural network (RBFNN), support vector …

Improving the prediction accuracy of decision tree mining with data preprocessing

P Chandrasekar, K Qian, H Shahriar… - 2017 IEEE 41st …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A decision tree is an important classification technique in data mining classification.
Decision trees have proved to be valuable tools for the classification, description, and …

Neural networks for soft decision making

H Ishibuchi, M Nii - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2000 - Elsevier
This paper discusses various techniques for soft decision making by neural networks.
Decision making problems are described as choosing an action from possible alternatives …