18370613. POST-MODELING CATEGORY MERGING (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION)
POST-MODELING CATEGORY MERGING
Organization Name
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Inventor(s)
POST-MODELING CATEGORY MERGING
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18370613 titled 'POST-MODELING CATEGORY MERGING
Original Abstract Submitted
An embodiment identifies, by a post-modeling category merging engine, a plurality of valid pairs associated with a categorical predictor, the plurality of valid pairs representing potential mergers of categories associated with a categorical predictor of a predictive model. The embodiment tests, by the post-modeling category merging engine, a merge strategy for the plurality of valid pairs to determine a merger that minimizes a loss in accuracy of the predictive model. The embodiment merges, by the post-modeling category merging engine based on the testing, a valid pair in the plurality of valid pairs to form a hybrid category.
