One-benefit learning: Cost-sensitive learning with restricted cost information

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Utility-Based Data Mining, UBDM '05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 53-58

  Zadrozny, Bianca ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cost sensitive learning; data mining

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIER LEARNING; COST INFORMATION; COST-SENSITIVE LEARNING; EVALUATION METHOD; LEARNING METHODS; SYNTHETIC DATA; TEST EXAMPLES; TRAINING EXAMPLE;

CLASSIFIERS; COSTS; DATA MINING; LABELS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953595252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1089827.1089834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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