Combining classifiers by particle swarms with local search

  • Authors:
  • Liying Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

  • Venue:
  • ICSI'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Advances in swarm intelligence - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Weighted combination model with appropriate weight vector is very effective in multiple classifier systems. We presented a method for determining the weight vector by particle swarm optimization in our previous work, which called PSO-WCM. A weighted combination model, PSO-LS-WCM, was proposed in this paper to improve the classification performance further, which obtained the weighted vector by particle swarm optimization with local search. We describe the algorithm of PSO-LS-WCM in detail. Seven real-world problems from UCI Machine Learning Repository were used in experiments to justify the validity of the approach. It was shown that PSO-LS-WCM is better than PSO-WCM and the other six combination methods in literature.