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: Received: 12 August 2016 / Approved: 13 August 2016 / Online: 13 August 2016 (11:28:39 CEST)
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Hernandez, S.; Vergara, D.; Jorquera, F. Incremental Learning for Large Scale Churn Prediction. Preprints2016, 2016080142. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0142.v1
Hernandez, S.; Vergara, D.; Jorquera, F. Incremental Learning for Large Scale Churn Prediction. Preprints 2016, 2016080142. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0142.v1
Hernandez, S.; Vergara, D.; Jorquera, F. Incremental Learning for Large Scale Churn Prediction. Preprints2016, 2016080142. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0142.v1
APA Style
Hernandez, S., Vergara, D., & Jorquera, F. (2016). Incremental Learning for Large Scale Churn Prediction. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0142.v1
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Hernandez, S., Diego Vergara and Felipe Jorquera. 2016 "Incremental Learning for Large Scale Churn Prediction" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0142.v1
Abstract
Modern companies accumulate a vast amount of customer data that can be used for creating a personalized experience. Analyzing this data is difficult and most business intelligence tools cannot cope with the volume of the data. One example is churn prediction, where the cost of retaining existing customers is less than acquiring new ones. Several data mining and machine learning approaches can be used, but there is still little information about the different algorithm settings to be used when the dataset doesn't fit into a single computer memory. Because of the difficulties of applying feature selection techniques at a large scale, Incremental Probabilistic Component Analysis (IPCA) is proposed as a data preprocessing technique. Also, we present a new approach to large scale churn prediction problems based on the mini-batch Stochastic Gradient Decent (SGD) algorithm. Compared to other techniques, the new method facilitates training with large data volumes using a small memory footprint while achieving good prediction results.
Keywords
churn prediction; incremental principal component analysis; stochastic gradient descent
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Information Systems
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