Abstract
The use of learning curves for decision making in supervised machine learning is standard practice, yet understanding of their behavior is rather limited. To facilitate a deepening of our knowledge, we introduce the Learning Curve Database (LCDB), which contains empirical learning curves of 20 classification algorithms on 246 datasets. One of the LCDB’s unique strength is that it contains all (probabilistic) predictions, which allows for building learning curves of arbitrary metrics. Moreover, it unifies the properties of similar high quality databases in that it (i) defines clean splits between training, validation, and test data, (ii) provides training times, and (iii) provides an API for convenient access (pip install lcdb). We demonstrate the utility of LCDB by analyzing some learning curve phenomena, such as convexity, monotonicity, peaking, and curve shapes. Improving our understanding of these matters is essential for efficient use of learning curves for model selection, speeding up model training, and to determine the value of more training data.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2022, Proceedings |
Editors | Massih-Reza Amini, Stéphane Canu, Asja Fischer, Tias Guns, Petra Kralj Novak, Grigorios Tsoumakas |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 3-19 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031264184 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Event | 22nd Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022 - Grenoble, France Duration: 19 Sept 2022 → 23 Sept 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 13717 LNAI |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 22nd Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022 |
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Country/Territory | France |
City | Grenoble |
Period | 19/09/22 → 23/09/22 |
Bibliographical note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-careOtherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
Keywords
- AutoML
- Learning curves
- Meta-learning