Abstract

We analyze a Relational Neighbor (RN) classifier, a simple relational\npredictive model that predicts only based on class labels of related neighbors,\nusing no learning and no inherent attributes.We show that it performs surprisingly\nwell by comparing it to more complex models such as Probabilistic Relational\nModels and Relational Probability Trees on three data sets from published work.\nWe argue that a simple model such as this should be used as a baseline to assess\nthe performance of relational learners.

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Simple (philosophy)Classifier (UML)Computer scienceArtificial intelligencePattern recognition (psychology)EpistemologyPhilosophy

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2003
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Sofus A. Macskassy, Foster Provost (2003). A Simple Relational Classifier. . https://doi.org/10.21236/ada452802

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10.21236/ada452802