madelon {MDFS}

An artificial dataset called MADELON

Description

An artificial dataset containing data points grouped in 32 clusters placed on the vertices of a five dimensional hypercube and randomly labeled 0/1.

Usage

madelon

Format

A list of two elements:

data

2000 by 500 matrix of 2000 objects with 500 features

decision

vector of 2000 decisions (labels 0/1)

IG.2D

example 2D IG computed using ComputeMaxInfoGains

Details

The five dimensions constitute 5 informative features. 15 linear combinations of those features are added to form a set of 20 (redundant) informative features. There are 480 distractor features called 'probes' having no predictive power.

Included is the original training set with label -1 changed to 0.

Source

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Madelon