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However, Multi-granulation decision-theoretic rough sets is very time-consuming to calculate the approximate value of the target set. Local rough sets not only inherits the advantages of classical rough set in dealing with imprecise, fuzzy and uncertain data, but also breaks through the limitation that classical rough set needs a lot of labeled data. In this paper, in order to make full use of the advantage of computational efficiency of local rough sets and the ability of more accurate approximation space description of multi-granulation decision-theoretic rough sets, we propose to combine the local rough sets and the multigranulation decision-theoretic rough sets in the covering approximation space to obtain the local multigranulation covering decision-theoretic rough sets model. This provides an effective tool for discovering knowledge and making decisions in relation to large data sets. 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