Predicting structured outputs k-nearest neighbours method

  • Authors:
  • Mitja Pugelj;Sašo Džeroski

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • DS'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Discovery science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this work, we address several tasks of structured prediction and propose a new method for handling such tasks. Structured prediction is becoming important as data mining is dealing with increasingly complex data (images, videos, sound, graphs, text,...). Our method, k-NN for structured prediction (kNN-SP), is an extension of the well known k-nearest neighbours method and can handle three different structured prediction problems: multi-target prediction, hierarchical multi-label classification, and prediction of short time-series. We evaluate the performance of kNN-SP on several datasets for each task and compare it to the performance of other structured prediction methods (predictive clustering trees and rules). We show that, despite it's simplicity, the kNN-SP method performs satisfactory on all tested problems.