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Overfitting
Introduction
Goal: Categorization
Given an event, predict is category. Examples:
Who won a given ball game?
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Introduction
Training
Decision
Events and
Tree
Categories
Category
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Decision Tree for PlayTennis
Outlook
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Word Sense Disambiguation
Categories
Use word sense labels (run1, run2, etc.) to name the
possible categories.
Features
Features describe the context of the word we want to
disambiguate.
Possible features include:
near(w): is the given word near an occurrence of word w?
pos: the word’s part of speech
left(w): is the word immediately preceded by the word w?
etc.
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Word Sense Disambiguation
Example decision tree:
pos
noun verb
near(stocking) near(race)
yes no yes no
run3
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WSD: Sample Training Data
Features Word
pos near(race) near(river) near(stockings) Sense
noun no no no run4
verb no no no run1
verb no yes no run3
noun yes yes yes run4
verb no no yes run1
verb yes yes no run2
verb no yes yes run3
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Decision Tree for Conjunction
Outlook=Sunny Wind=Weak
Outlook
Wind No No
Strong Weak
No Yes
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Decision Tree for Disjunction
Outlook=Sunny Wind=Weak
Outlook
No Yes No Yes
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Decision Tree for XOR
Outlook=Sunny XOR Wind=Weak
Outlook
(Outlook=Sunny Humidity=Normal)
(Outlook=Overcast)
(Outlook=Rain Wind=Weak)
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When to consider Decision Trees
Instances describable by attribute-value pairs
Target function is discrete valued
Disjunctive hypothesis may be required
Possibly noisy training data
Missing attribute values
Examples:
Medical diagnosis
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Top-Down Induction of Decision
Trees ID3
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Which attribute is best?
G H L M
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Entropy
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Information Gain (S=E)
Gain(S,A): expected reduction in entropy due to sorting
S on attribute A
G H True False
Over
Sunny Rain
cast
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ID3 Algorithm
[D1,D2,…,D14] Outlook
[9+,5-]
No Yes No Yes
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Overfitting
One of the biggest problems with decision trees is
Overfitting
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Avoid Overfitting
stop growing when split not statistically
significant
grow full tree, then post-prune
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Effect of Reduced Error Pruning
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Converting a Tree to Rules
Outlook
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Unknown Attribute Values
What if some examples have missing values of A?
Use training example anyway sort through tree
If node n tests A, assign most common value of A
tree
Model selection
Feature selection
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