🛠️ Invention or technique

ID3 algorithm

Algoritmo ID3

Date
1986 · confidence medium
Place
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Credited to
Ross Quinlan
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What it is

Ross Quinlan published the ID3 algorithm, which builds a decision tree from data using information gain; it laid the groundwork for modern symbolic machine learning.

What it led to

  • The C4.5 algorithm
  • Decision trees in data mining
  • Random forests and gradient boosting
  • Automated expert systems

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