Rule pruning techniques in the ant-miner classification algorithm and its variants: A review

Rule-based classification is considered an important task of data classification. The ant-mining rule-based classification algorithm, inspired from the ant colony optimization algorithm, shows a comparable performance and outperforms in some application domains to the existing methods in the literature. One problem that often arises in any rule-based classification is the overfitting problem. Rule pruning is a framework to avoid overfitting....