Pruning Set

A Pruning Set is Training Data subset that is used by a machine learning system.

• Example(s):
  • pruning decision trees with cost complexity pruning (Python implementation),
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • Growing Dataset.

See: Data Set, Training Dataset, Test Dataset, Validation Dataset.

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References

2017

• (Sammut & Webb, 2017) ⇒ (2017) "Growing Set". In: Sammut & Webb, 2017.
  • QUOTE: A pruning set is a subset of a training set containing data that are used by a learning system to evaluate models that are learned from a growing set.

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