[jira] [Created] (FLINK-1727) Add decision tree to machine learning library

[Shang Yuanchun (Jira)]

Till Rohrmann created FLINK-1727:
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             Summary: Add decision tree to machine learning library
                 Key: FLINK-1727
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-1727
             Project: Flink
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Machine Learning Library
            Reporter: Till Rohrmann


Decision trees are widely used for classification and regression tasks. Thus, it would be worthwhile to add support for them to Flink's machine learning library.

A streaming parallel decision tree learning algorithm has been proposed by Ben-Haim and Tom-Tov [1]. This can maybe adapted to a batch use case as well. [2] contains an overview of different techniques of how to scale inductive learning algorithms up. A presentation of Spark's MLlib decision tree implementation can be found in [3].

Resources:
[1] [http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume11/ben-haim10a/ben-haim10a.pdf]
[2] [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.46.8226&rep=rep1&type=pdf]
[3] [http://spark-summit.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Scalable-Distributed-Decision-Trees-in-Spark-Made-Das-Sparks-Talwalkar.pdf]



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