Dynamic classifier systems and their applications to random forest ensembles

  • Authors:
  • David Štefka;Martin Holeňa

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 8, Czech Republic;Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 8, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • ICANNGA'09 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Adaptive and natural computing algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Classifier combining is a popular method for improving quality of classification - instead of using one classifier, several classifiers are organized into a classifier system and their results are aggregated into a final prediction. However, most of the commonly used aggregation methods are static, i.e., they do not adapt to the currently classified pattern. In this paper, we provide a general framework for dynamic classifier systems, which use dynamic confidence measures to adapt to a particular pattern. Our experiments with random forests on 5 artificial and 11 realworld benchmark datasets show that dynamic classifier systems can significantly outperform both confidence-free and static classifier systems.