Best Machine Learning Algorithms for Classification:

PROS CONS

Accepts every feature

Simple, easy and fast
is independent. This isn’t
Naive Not sensitive to irrelevant features
Works great in practice
always the truth.

Bayes Needs less training data

For both multi-class and binary
Classifier classification
Works with continuous and discrete
data

PROS CONS

Easy to understand Might suffer from overfitting

Easy to generate rules
Decision There are almost null hyper-
parameters to be tuned
Trees Complex Decision Tree models can be
significantly simplified by its
visualizations
Does not easily work with non-
numerical data
Low prediction accuracy for a
dataset in comparison with other
algorithms
When there are many class labels,
calculations can be complex
 PROS CONS

Fast algorithm Doesn’t perform well with large

Effective in high dimensional spaces data sets
Support Great accuracy Not so simple to program
Power and flexibility from kernels Doesn’t perform so well, when the
Vector Works very well with a clear margin data comes with more noise i.e.
of separation target classes are overlapping
Machines Many applications

PROS CONS

The overfitting problem does not exist Complexity

Random Can be used for feature engineering
i.e. for identifying the most important
Requires a lot of computational
resources
Forest features among the all available Time-consuming
features in the training dataset Need to choose the number of
Classifier Runs very well on large databases trees
Extremely flexible and have very high
accuracy
No need for preparation of the input
data
 PROS CONS

Computationally expensive testing

Simple to understand and easy to
phase
implement
Can have skewed class
KNN Zero to little training time
distributions
Works easily with multiclass data
Algorithm sets
The accuracy can be decreased
when it comes to high-dimension
Has good predictive power
data
Does well in practice
Needs to define a value for the
parameter k

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