Design and Implementation of a Development Platform for Ensemble Pruning

Ensemble and ensemble pruning are hot topics in machine learning community.However,in most of the related publications the experiments are based on private implementations,resulting in much wasted time due to the duplication of efforts between researchers.And the application of ensemble pruning is also affected because of complexity and differences in the various implementations.This paper presents the key issues in designs of a research and development platform for ensemble and ensemble pruning,which aims to reduce the work in developing and testing of the ensemble pruning methods,to alleviate the confusions in the conclusions of different experiments and to accelerate the application of these techniques to real world problems.Then taking EPP(Ensemble Pruning Platform) as example,this paper describes the details of implementing such a platform by the C++ programming language.