What Is Prepruning
As the Names Suggest, Pre-Pruning or Early Stopping Involves Stopping the Tree Before It Has Completed Classifying the Training Set and Post-Pruning Refers to...
As the names suggest, pre-pruning or early stopping involves stopping the tree before it has completed classifying the training set and post-pruning refers to pruning the tree after it has finished.
What is pre-pruning in data mining?
Pre-pruning that stop growing the tree earlier, before it perfectly classifies the training set. Post-pruning that allows the tree to perfectly classify the training set, and then post prune the tree.
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What does post pruning do?
Post-pruning (or just pruning) is the most common way of simplifying trees. Here, nodes and subtrees are replaced with leaves to reduce complexity. Pruning can not only significantly reduce the size but also improve the classification accuracy of unseen objects.