Simple decision forests for multi-relational classification

An important task in multi-relational data mining is link-based classification which takes advantage of attributes of links and linked entities, to predict the class label. The relational naive Bayes classifier exploits independence assumptions to achieve scalability. We introduce a weaker independence assumption to the e↵ect that information from di↵erent data tables is independent given the class label. The independence assumption entails a closed-form formula for combining probabilistic predictions based on decision trees learned on di↵erent database tables. Logistic regression learns di↵erent weights for information from di↵erent tables and prunes irrelevant tables. In experiments, learning was very fast with competitive accuracy.