Evolving ensembles in multi-objective genetic programming for classification with unbalanced data

  • Authors:
  • Urvesh Bhowan;Mark Johnston;Mengjie Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Machine learning algorithms can suffer a performance bias when data sets are unbalanced. This paper proposes a Multi-objective Genetic Programming approach using negative correlation learning to evolve accurate and diverse ensembles of non-dominated solutions where members vote on class membership. We also compare two popular Pareto-based fitness schemes on the classification tasks. We show that the evolved ensembles achieve high accuracy on both classes using six unbalanced binary data sets, and that this performance is usually better than many of its individual members.