An empirical study of applying ensembles of heterogeneous classifiers on imperfect data

  • Authors:
  • Kuo-Wei Hsu;Jaideep Srivastava

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD'09 Proceedings of the 13th Pacific-Asia international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining: new frontiers in applied data mining
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Two factors that slow down the deployment of classification or supervised learning in real-world situations. One is the reality that data are not perfect in practice, while the other is the fact that every technique has its own limits. Although there have been techniques developed to resolve issues about imperfectness of real-world data, there is no single one that outperforms all others and each such technique focuses on some types of imperfectness. Furthermore, quite a few works apply ensembles of heterogeneous classifiers to such situations. In this paper, we report a work on progress that studies the impact of heterogeneity on ensemble, especially focusing on the following aspects: diversity and classification quality for imbalanced data. Our goal is to evaluate how introducing heterogeneity into ensemble influences its behavior and performance.