Undirected cyclic graph based multiclass pair-wise classifier: Classifier number reduction maintaining accuracy

Supervised Classification approaches try to classify correctly the new unlabelled examples based on a set of well-labelled samples. Nevertheless, some classification methods were formulated for binary classification problems and has difficulties for multi-class problems. Binarization strategies deco...

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Autores: Mendialdua Beitia, Iñigo, Echegaray López, Goretti, Rodríguez Rodríguez, Igor, Lazkano Ortega, Elena, Sierra Araujo, Basilio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/63880
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/63880
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:machine learning
supervised classification
decomposition strategies
one-vs-one
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Sumario:Supervised Classification approaches try to classify correctly the new unlabelled examples based on a set of well-labelled samples. Nevertheless, some classification methods were formulated for binary classification problems and has difficulties for multi-class problems. Binarization strategies decompose the original multi-class dataset into multiple two-class subsets. For each new sub-problem a classifier is constructed. One-vs-One is a popular decomposition strategy that in each sub-problem discriminates the cases that belong to a pair of classes, ignoring the remaining ones. One of its drawbacks is that it creates a large number of classifiers, and some of them are irrelevant. In order to reduce the number of classifiers, in this paper we propose a new method called Decision Undirected Cyclic Graph. Instead of making the comparisons of all the pair of classes, each class is compared only with other two classes; evolutionary computation is used in the proposed approach in order to obtain suitable class pairing. In order to empirically show the performance of the proposed approach, a set of experiments over four popular Machine Learning algorithms are carried out, where our new method is compared with other well-known decomposition strategies of the literature obtaining promising results.