ClEnDAE: A classifier based on ensembles with built-in dimensionality reduction through denoising autoencoders

High dimensionality is an issue that affects most classification algorithms. This factor implies that the predictive performance of many traditional classifiers decreases considerably as the number of features increases. Therefore, there are numerous proposals that try to mitigate the effects of thi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Pulgar, F.J, Charte, F., Rivera, A.J., Del Jesus, M.J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión borrador
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Jaén
Repositorio:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
OAI Identifier:oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/7057
Acceso en línea:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025521002024
https://hdl.handle.net/10953/7057
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:classification
deep learning
denoising autoenconders
dimensionality reduction
ensembles
feature fusion
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Sumario:High dimensionality is an issue that affects most classification algorithms. This factor implies that the predictive performance of many traditional classifiers decreases considerably as the number of features increases. Therefore, there are numerous proposals that try to mitigate the effects of this issue. This study proposes ClEnDAE, a new classifier based on ensembles whose components incorporate denoising autoencoders (DAEs) to reduce the dimensionality of the input space. On the one hand, the use of ensembles improves the predictive performance by using several components that work jointly. On the other hand, the use of DAEs allows a new higher-level, smaller-sized feature space to be generated, reducing high dimensionality effects. Finally, an experimentation is conducted with the goal of evaluating the behavior of ClEnDAE. The first part of the test compares the performance of ClEnDAE to a model based on basic DAE and to the original untreated data. The second part analyzes the results of ClEnDAE and other traditional methods of dimensionality reduction in order to determine the improvement achieved with the proposed algorithm. In both parts of the experimentation, conclusions show that ClEnDAE offers better predictive performance than the other analyzed models. The main advantage of the ClEnDAE method is the combination of the potential of the ensemble-based methodology, where several components work in parallel, and DAEs, which generate new low-dimensional features that provide more relevant information. Therefore, the classification performance is better than with other classic proposals.