Classification and Regression with the BigML Dashboard

6.3 Creating Fusions

You need at least one model to create a fusion. You can use several options depending if you want to select multiple models of one type or few models of different types to create a fusion:

  • If you want to use a single decision tree, ensemble, logistic regression or deepnet, you can click on the create fusion option from the model 1-click action menu (see Figure 6.4 ) or from the pop up menu on the list view (see Figure 6.5 ):

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    Figure 6.4 Create fusion from 1-click menu
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    Figure 6.5 Create fusion from pop up menu
  • If you want to select multiple decision trees, ensembles, logistic regressions or deepnets at the same time, you can click on the create fusion option from the list view (see Figure 6.6 ).

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    Figure 6.6 Create fusion from model list views

    When you select one model from the list, you will only be able to select other compatible models, i.e., those models with the same objective field type and name. The rest of models will not be selectable (see Figure 6.7 ).

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    Figure 6.7 Select models with the same objective field
  • You can also select multiple models from the OptiML view and click on the Create fusion button (see Figure 6.8 ).

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    Figure 6.8 Select models from the OptiML table
  • If you want to create a new fusion using the same models of another existing fusion, you can click on the create fusion using this one option from the fusion 1-click action menu. This option is very useful to iterate your existing fusions.

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    Figure 6.9 Create fusion using another fusion

All of the above options will redirect you to the fusion creation view (see Figure 6.10 ). From this view, you can select more models and configure the fusion parameters. See a detailed explanation of these options in section 6.4 .

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Figure 6.10 Fusion creation view