"Minimal gain - Decision Trees"

MadcapMadcap Member Posts: 14 Contributor I
edited May 2019 in Help
Could someone help explain to me minimal gain for decision tree pre-pruning. 
How is the gain of a node quantified?

Thanks for any help
-Madcap

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  • varunm1varunm1 Moderator, Member Posts: 1,207 Unicorn
    edited March 2019 Solution Accepted
    Hello @Madcap

    Gain is calculated based on entropy. Gain will give us the amount of information provided by a splitting a feature.

    In case of pre-pruning, we will not build the whole tree as we will start pruning (removing split) while the tree is being built 

    From my understanding, the minimal gain is where we are setting a cut point (threshold). For example, if the calculated gain for a particular feature split is greater than the set minimal gain then there will be a split else it will just leave that feature as a leaf.

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    Varun
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