Paper Info
Title
Automatic recommendation of classification algorithms based on data set characteristics
Abstract
Choosing appropriate classification algorithms for a given data set is very important and useful in practice but also is full of challenges. In this paper, a method of recommending classification algorithms is proposed. Firstly the feature vectors of data sets are extracted using a novel method and the performance of classification algorithms on the data sets is evaluated. Then the feature vector of a new data set is extracted, and its k nearest data sets are identified. Afterwards, the classification algorithms of the nearest data sets are recommended to the new data set. The proposed data set feature extraction method uses structural and statistical information to characterize data sets, which is quite different from the existing methods. To evaluate the performance of the proposed classification algorithm recommendation method and the data set feature extraction method, extensive experiments with the 17 different types of classification algorithms, the three different types of data set characterization methods and all possible numbers of the nearest data sets are conducted upon the 84 publicly available UCI data sets. The results indicate that the proposed method is effective and can be used in practice.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.patcog.2011.12.025
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
Field
DocType
new data set,nearest data set,automatic recommendation,available uci data set,classification algorithm,feature extraction method,new data,different type,feature vector,proposed data,classification,k nearest neighbors
k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Data mining,Data set,Feature vector,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Feature extraction,Data type,Artificial intelligence,Statistical classification
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
45
7
0031-3203
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
24
1.13
36
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qinbao Song191740.02
Guangtao Wang29410.27
Chao Wang340427.12