Data mining methods, component structure

The search or optimization method, the third component, describes the computational procedure to search over parameters and structures. Issues here include the computational methods used to optimize the scoring function and to search related parameters such as the maximum number of iterations or convergence specifications for iterative algorithms. Typical search methods are greedy search, gradient-depen-dent search methods, or breadth search methods [4], One distinguishes between searches that involve only the optimization of the parameters in fixed structures, and the optimization of structures and parameters for data mining methods that include searches over parameter and structure. 

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