Which machine learning classifier to choose in general

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Suppose I'm working on some classification problem. (Fraud detection and comment spam are two problems I'm working on right now, but I'm curious about any classification task in general.)

How do I know which classifier I should use?

  1. Decision tree
  2. SVM
  3. Bayesian
  4. Neural network
  5. K-nearest neighbors
  6. Q-learning
  7. Genetic algorithm
  8. Markov decision processes
  9. Convolutional neural networks or others
In which cases is one of these the "natural" first choice, and what are the principles for choosing that one?
Feb 21, 2022 in Machine Learning by Nandini
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Choice of Machine Learning Classifier depends upon the data set. When a substantial amount of training data is available, boosting is generally effective. Random trees are frequently quite effective, and they can also be used to do regression.
K-nearest neighbors - the most basic thing you can perform, but can be slow and demands a lot of memory.
Slow to train but incredibly fast to operate, neural networks are still the best performer for letter recognition.
With minimal data, SVM is one of the best
With categorical/binomial data, Bayesian works best.
Complex non-linear classification can be handled using neural nets and SVMs.
Thus, there is no benchmark or pre-defined solutions, it is all about performing iterations over the model, improving the results with hyperparameter tuning and then finalizing the model after continued improvements and iterations.
answered Feb 21, 2022 by Dev
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