A survey on concept drift adaptation

  • Authors:
  • João Gama;Indrė Žliobaitė;Albert Bifet;Mykola Pechenizkiy;Abdelhamid Bouchachia

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Porto, Portugal;Aalto University and HIIT, Finland;Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain;Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands;Bournemouth University, UK

  • Venue:
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

Concept drift primarily refers to an online supervised learning scenario when the relation between the input data and the target variable changes over time. Assuming a general knowledge of supervised learning in this article, we characterize adaptive learning processes; categorize existing strategies for handling concept drift; overview the most representative, distinct, and popular techniques and algorithms; discuss evaluation methodology of adaptive algorithms; and present a set of illustrative applications. The survey covers the different facets of concept drift in an integrated way to reflect on the existing scattered state of the art. Thus, it aims at providing a comprehensive introduction to the concept drift adaptation for researchers, industry analysts, and practitioners.