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Interestingness First Classifiers - Data Processing Club

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Share This PostMost existing machine learning models aim to maximize predictive accuracy, but in this article, I will introduce classifiers that prioritize interestingness. What Does It Mean to Prioritize Interestingness? For example, let us consider the task of classifying whether a user is an adult based on their profile.If the profile contains an age feature, […]

Share This Post Most existing machine learning models aim to maximize predictive accuracy, but in this article, I will introduce classifiers that prioritize interestingness . What Does It Mean to Prioritize Interestingness? For example, let us consider the task of classifying whether a user is an adult based on their profile. If the profile contains an age feature, then the rule “age ≥ 18” would achieve 100% accuracy. On social media, there is always a possibility that users write down a false age, but in most cases people report their age more or less correctly, so this rule would likely achi

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