Abstract

Generating classification rules or decision trees from examples has been a subject of intense study in the pattern recognition community, the statistics community, and the machine-learning community of the artificial intelligence area. We pursue a point of view that minimality of rules is important, perhaps above all other considerations (biases) that come into play in generating rules. We present a new minimal rule-generation algorithm called R-MINI (Rule-MINI) that is an adaptation of a well-established heuristic-switching-function-minimization technique, MINI. The main mechanism that reduces the number of rules is repeated application of generalization and specialization operations to the rule set while maintaining completeness and consistency. R-MINI results on some benchmark cases are also presented.

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