Sampling Strategies for Mining in Data-Scarce Domains

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2002-04-22

arxiv.org/abs/cs/0204047v2

Computer Science

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science

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Data mining has traditionally focused on the task of drawing inferences from large datasets. However, many scientific and engineering domains, such as fluid dynamics and aircraft design, are characterized by scarce data, due to the expense and complexity of associated experiments and simulations. In such data-scarce domains, it is advantageous to focus the data collection effort on only those regions deemed most important to support a particular data mining objective. This paper describes a mechanism that interleaves bottom-up data mining, to uncover multi-level structures in spatial data, with top-down sampling, to clarify difficult decisions in the mining process. The mechanism exploits relevant physical properties, such as continuity, correspondence, and locality, in a unified framework. This leads to effective mining and sampling decisions that are explainable in terms of domain knowledge and data characteristics. This approach is demonstrated in two diverse applications -- mining pockets in spatial data, and qualitative determination of Jordan forms of matrices.

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