META-DES.H selects competent classifiers using meta-learning and dynamic weighting.
problem Selecting competent classifiers in dynamic ensemble selection.
method META-DES framework using meta-learning and dynamic weighting.
result Improvements in recognition accuracy on 30 datasets.
Dynamic Ensemble Selection (DES) techniques aim to select locally competent classifiers for the classification of each new test sample. Most DES techniques estimate the competence of classifiers using a given criterion over the region of competence of the test sample (its the nearest neighbors in the validation set). T…
Dynamic ensemble selection systems work by estimating the level of competence of each classifier from a pool of classifiers. Only the most competent ones are selected to classify a given test sample. This is achieved by defining a criterion to measure the level of competence of a base classifier, such as, its accuracy …
Improved dynamic classifier selection by refining regions of competence.
problem Limited performance of dynamic selection systems due to noisy regions.
method Integrates a filter and an adaptive distance to enhance regions of competence.
result Significant increase in recognition performance and decrease in computational cost.
Dynamic ensemble selection (DES) techniques work by estimating the level of competence of each classifier from a pool of classifiers. Only the most competent ones are selected to classify a given test sample. Hence, the key issue in DES is the criterion used to estimate the level of competence of the classifiers in pre…
Paper improves competence estimation of machine learning models.
problem Estimating machine learning performance in real-world scenarios.
method ALICE Score: a pointwise competence estimator considering distributional, data, and model uncertainty.
result Significant improvements in competence prediction over state-of-the-art methods.
Prototype selection improves DS techniques' accuracy and reduces computational cost.
problem Improving the performance of dynamic selection techniques.
method Prototype selection techniques that edit validation data to remove noise and redundant instances.
result Improves DS techniques' classification accuracy and reduces computational cost.
Despite being very effective in several classification tasks, Dynamic Ensemble Selection (DES) techniques can select classifiers that classify all samples in the region of competence as being from the same class. The Frienemy Indecision REgion DES (FIRE-DES) tackles this problem by pre-selecting classifiers that correc…
A meta-learning framework for dynamic ensemble selection.
problem Improving dynamic ensemble selection for classification tasks.
method Proposes a three-step framework using meta-learning to select competent classifiers.
result Problem-dependent scenario yields the best performance.
Paper evaluates competence measures for DRS systems.
problem Choosing the best measure to quantify competence in DRS systems is challenging.
method Reviewed and adapted eight competence measures for regression problems, compared them on 15 datasets, and evaluated three DRS systems.
result DRS systems outperform individual regressors and static systems, but competence measure choice depends on the problem.
The study proposes a framework to accept OOD data based on competence scores.
problem Silent failures in Domain Generalization where models reject OOD data without proper justification.
method A learning to reject framework using proxy incompetence scores to predict trustworthiness.
result Increasing incompetence scores are predictive of reduced accuracy, but not always favorable for accuracy/rejection trade-off.
In this work we addressed the issue of applying a stochastic classifier and a local, fuzzy confusion matrix under the framework of multi-label classification. We proposed a novel solution to the problem of correcting label pairwise ensembles. The main step of the correction procedure is to compute classifier-specific c…
Flexible classifier using Mahalanobis distances for non-elliptical distributions.
problem Classifying non-elliptical and multimodal distributions.
method Semiparametric classifier based on Mahalanobis distances and generalized additive models.
result The proposed classifiers outperform traditional methods in high-dimensional, low-sample-size scenarios.
META-DES.Oracle uses meta-learning and feature selection to improve ensemble selection accuracy.
problem Dynamic Ensemble Selection (DES) issues with classifier competence estimation.
method META-DES.Oracle integrates multiple criteria and an Oracle-based meta-feature selection scheme.
result META-DES.Oracle significantly improves classification accuracy compared to previous methods.
Dynamic Classifier Selection (DCS) techniques have difficulty in selecting the most competent classifier in a pool, even when its presence is assured. Since the DCS techniques rely only on local data to estimate a classifier's competence, the manner in which the pool is generated could affect the choice of the best cla…
In this work, we addressed the issue of applying a stochastic classifier and a local, fuzzy confusion matrix under the framework of multi-label classification. We proposed a novel solution to the problem of correcting label pairwise ensembles. The main step of the correction procedure is to compute classifier- specific…
Usually one compares the accuracy of two competing classifiers via null hypothesis significance tests (nhst). Yet the nhst tests suffer from important shortcomings, which can be overcome by switching to Bayesian hypothesis testing. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical model which jointly analyzes the cross-validation res…
We examine a network of learners which address the same classification task but must learn from different data sets. The learners cannot share data but instead share their models. Models are shared only one time so as to preserve the network load. We introduce DELCO (standing for Decentralized Ensemble Learning with CO…
NCC is inefficient in higher dimensions, NCDA improves performance.
problem Inefficiency of NCC in higher dimensions.
method Combining NCC with LDA to create NCDA.
result NCDA outperforms NCC and competes with LDA and QDA.
The nearest neighbor classifier fails in high dimensions, leading to this study.
problem Failure of nearest neighbor classifier in high-dimensional data.
method Discussed and proposed new methods to address the issue.
result The proposed methods improve performance in high-dimensional data.
Proposes dynamic model type recommendation for OLP technique.
problem Limited local competence of base-classifiers in uneven data distributions.
method Builds a multi-label meta-classifier to recommend model types based on local data complexity.
result Statistically similar performance to original OLP with fixed base-classifier model.
The paper explores fair machine learning policies for balancing competing objectives in noisy data.
problem Balancing competing objectives in noisy data.
method Analyzes a class of policies that trace an empirical Pareto frontier based on learned scores.
result Characterizes optimal strategies and bounds Pareto errors due to score inaccuracies.
In this paper, we analyze the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer Data using Machine Learning classification techniques, such as the SVM, Bayesian Logistic Regression (Variational Approximation), and K-Nearest-Neighbors. We describe each model, and compare their performance through different measures. We conclude that S…
The paper studies a stochastic majority vote approach to improve classifier accuracy.
problem Improving classifier accuracy over ensembles of classifiers.
method Minimizing a PAC-Bayes generalization bound with Dirichlet distributions.
result Achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and tight generalization bounds.
Ensembling improves performance when classifiers disagree more than average.
problem When do ensembles provide significant performance improvements in classification tasks?
method Theoretical and empirical analysis of ensemble improvement rate and disagreement-error ratio.
result Ensembling improves performance significantly when the disagreement rate is large relative to the average error rate.
Mathematical approach assesses human resource competences accurately.
problem Accurate assessment and representation of human resource competences.
method Detailed quantification scheme and mathematical approach.
result Flexible tools for optimal job assignment and recruitment.
This paper describes the Amobee sentiment analysis system, adapted to compete in SemEval 2017 task 4. The system consists of two parts: a supervised training of RNN models based on a Twitter sentiment treebank, and the use of feedforward NN, Naive Bayes and logistic regression classifiers to produce predictions for the…
MCAL reduces labeling costs by 6x for auto-labeling data sets.
problem Expensive human annotation for ground-truth data sets.
method Iterative approach that trains a classifier to auto-label part of the data set, determining which samples to label using humans and which to label using the classifier at each step.
result 6x lower overall cost compared to human labeling the entire data set, always cheaper than competing strategies.
A binary classifier capable of abstaining from making a label prediction has two goals in tension: minimizing errors, and avoiding abstaining unnecessarily often. In this work, we exactly characterize the best achievable tradeoff between these two goals in a general semi-supervised setting, given an ensemble of predict…
LEEP measures transferability of learned representations efficiently.
problem Evaluating the transferability of learned representations in machine learning.
method LEEP: Log Expected Empirical Prediction, a simple measure requiring one pass through the target data set.
result LEEP predicts transfer and meta-transfer learning performance and convergence speed, outperforming existing measures.
The output scores of a neural network classifier are converted to probabilities via normalizing over the scores of all competing categories. Computing this partition function, Z, is then linear in the number of categories, which is problematic as real-world problem sets continue to grow in categorical types, such as …
Certified robustness for ImageNet models with randomized smoothing.
problem Creating robust models against adversarial attacks.
method Randomized smoothing with Gaussian noise.
result Certified top-1 accuracy of 49% on ImageNet under small ℓ2 perturbations. Symmetry-electronic fingerprints reveal competing magnetic phases in two-dimensional materials.
problem Predicting magnetic ground states, moments, and anisotropy in two-dimensional magnets.
method Introduce the symmetry-electronic fingerprint (SEF), a physically interpretable representation that encodes crystallographic symmetry operations, Wyckoff-site geometry, and site-resolved electronic structure.
result SEF-trained models accurately classify magnetic ordering and regress moments alongside anisotropy energies.
End-to-end framework learns from imperfect annotations directly.
problem Training machine learning models on imperfect human annotations.
method End-to-end framework merging aggregation with model training and modeling annotator competencies.
result Accuracy gains of up to 25% over state-of-the-art annotation aggregation methods.
A new method compares image classifiers using adaptive sampling of natural images.
problem Evaluation of image classifiers on small, fixed test sets may not generalize to real-world images.
method Adaptive sampling from a large corpus of unlabeled images to maximize classifier discrepancies measured by WordNet hierarchy.
result Human labeling of model-dependent image sets reveals relative classifier performance.
A framework assesses the trustworthiness of probabilistic classifiers using local calibration error.
problem Assessing the trustworthiness of probabilistic classifiers beyond traditional metrics.
method I-trustworthy framework linking local calibration to trustworthiness; Kernel Local Calibration Error (KLCE) method for hypothesis testing.
result The effectiveness of the proposed test statistic demonstrated through simulated and real-world datasets.
We propose a new splitting criterion for a meta-learning approach to multiclass classifier design that adaptively merges the classes into a tree-structured hierarchy of increasingly difficult binary classification problems. The classification tree is constructed from empirical estimates of the Henze-Penrose bounds on t…
A new copula estimation method using classification.
problem Estimating copula density from joint and marginal distributions.
method Train a classifier to distinguish joint density from product of marginals.
result Empirically outperforms existing copula estimators.
Comprisk simplifies competing-risks analysis in Python.
problem Analyzing medical time-to-event data with competing risks.
method A scikit-learn-compatible toolkit for competing-risks survival analysis.
result Comprisk provides a unified API for various competing-risks methods.
Classifiers based on sparse representations have recently been shown to provide excellent results in many visual recognition and classification tasks. However, the high cost of computing sparse representations at test time is a major obstacle that limits the applicability of these methods in large-scale problems, or in…
Multiple classifier systems focus on the combination of classifiers to obtain better performance than a single robust one. These systems unfold three major phases: pool generation, selection and integration. One of the most promising MCS approaches is Dynamic Selection (DS), which relies on finding the most competent c…
SurvivalBoost improves prediction of event times in competing risks scenarios.
problem Predicting event times in scenarios with multiple possible outcomes.
method Developed a strictly proper censoring-adjusted scoring rule for stochastic optimization of competing risks.
result SurvivalBoost outperforms 12 state-of-the-art models across various metrics.
XGBOD combines unsupervised and supervised methods for better outlier detection.
problem Enhanced outlier detection from normal observations in various datasets.
method Hybrid approach using unsupervised representation learning to improve a supervised classifier.
result XGBOD outperforms competing methods across seven datasets.
Clarinet uses complementary labels to train classifiers with less source data.
problem Training classifiers with true-label data from source domain is costly.
method Proposes CLARINET to train classifiers with complementary-label source data and unlabeled target data.
result CLARINET significantly outperforms baselines in unsupervised domain adaptation.
Survival analysis in the presence of multiple possible adverse events, i.e., competing risks, is a pervasive problem in many industries (healthcare, finance, etc.). Since only one event is typically observed, the incidence of an event of interest is often obscured by other related competing events. This nonidentifiabil…
Competency questions help experts select best clustering for energy data.
problem Ad hoc and subjective selection of clustering structures by domain experts.
method Formalize expert knowledge and requirements with competency questions.
result Competency questions improve reproducibility and evaluation of clustering applications.
This paper uses neural networks to accurately model competing risks in survival analysis.
problem Ignoring competing risks leads to biased survival estimation in machine learning models.
method The paper introduces constrained monotonic neural networks to model each competing survival distribution.
result The method ensures exact likelihood maximization with reduced computational cost.
Proposes and evaluates three diagnostic graphics for probabilistic classifiers.
problem Evaluating and comparing probabilistic classifiers.
method Triptych of diagnostic graphics: reliability diagram, ROC curve, Murphy diagram.
result Visual diagnostics reveal distinct aspects of forecast performance.