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cs.SE2016★ 218 cited
Tuning for Software Analytics: is it Really Necessary?
Wei Fu, Tim Menzies, Xipeng Shen
Context: Data miners have been widely used in software engineering to, say, generate defect predictors from static code measures. Such static code defect predictors perform well co…
cs.SE2016★ 33 cited
Why is Differential Evolution Better than Grid Search for Tuning Defect Predictors?
Wei Fu, Vivek Nair, Tim Menzies
Context: One of the black arts of data mining is learning the magic parameters which control the learners. In software analytics, at least for defect prediction, several methods, l…
cs.SE2016★ 237 cited
What is Wrong with Topic Modeling? (and How to Fix it Using Search-based Software Engineering)
Amritanshu Agrawal, Wei Fu, Tim Menzies
Context: Topic modeling finds human-readable structures in unstructured textual data. A widely used topic modeler is Latent Dirichlet allocation. When run on different datasets, LD…