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Proposes a novel SVM model for binary classification with different misclassification costs.
New algorithm reduces misclassification costs in neural networks.
Unified framework for cost-sensitive ensemble learning.
Imbalanced data with a skewed class distribution are common in many real-world applications. Deep Belief Network (DBN) is a machine learning technique that is effective in classification tasks. However, conventional DBN does not work well for imbalanced data classification because it assumes equal costs for each class.…
This paper proposes CSADA to make DNNs cost-sensitive.
Method minimizes total cost of classification by acquiring covariates efficiently.
We propose a method for building an interpretable recommender system for personalizing online content and promotions. Historical data available for the system consists of customer features, provided content (promotions), and user responses. Unlike in a standard multi-class classification setting, misclassification cost…
Proposes an angle-based framework for multicategory cost-sensitive classification.
Binary classification rules based on covariates typically depend on simple loss functions such as zero-one misclassification. Some cases may require more complex loss functions. For example, individual-level monitoring of HIV-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy (ART) requires periodic assessment of treatment…
A novel method for classification with rejection using ensemble of cost-sensitive classifiers.
The cost-sensitive classification problem plays a crucial role in mission-critical machine learning applications, and differs with traditional classification by taking the misclassification costs into consideration. Although being studied extensively in the literature, the fundamental limits of this problem are still n…
Automated data-driven decision making systems are increasingly being used to assist, or even replace humans in many settings. These systems function by learning from historical decisions, often taken by humans. In order to maximize the utility of these systems (or, classifiers), their training involves minimizing the e…
Optimal subset selection for hypothesis testing with penalties.
Proposes cost-sensitive feature selection for SVMs.
New research shows logistic regression can achieve optimal error rate for agnostic learning of halfspaces.
This work aims to reduce inexplicable errors in deep neural networks by obtaining class-level semantics and penalizing misclassifications.
We characterize a prevalent weakness of deep neural networks (DNNs)---overthinking---which occurs when a DNN can reach correct predictions before its final layer. Overthinking is computationally wasteful, and it can also be destructive when, by the final layer, a correct prediction changes into a misclassification. Und…
Study identifies and mitigates causes of image misclassifications in CNN models.
Optimizes active learning for machine learning models with Bayesian approach.
A new activation function improves credit scoring accuracy for imbalanced datasets.
Cost-Sensitive Online Classification has drawn extensive attention in recent years, where the main approach is to directly online optimize two well-known cost-sensitive metrics: (i) weighted sum of sensitivity and specificity; (ii) weighted misclassification cost. However, previous existing methods only considered firs…
Paper introduces a new uncertainty measure for misclassification detection.
Abstaining classifiers have been widely used in cost-sensitive applications to avoid ambiguous classification and reduce the cost of misclassification. Previous abstaining classification models rely on cost information, such as a cost matrix or cost ratio. However, it is difficult to obtain or estimate costs in practic…
Non-convex SGD learns halfspaces with adversarial label noise efficiently.
A new framework selects information sources to test hypotheses robustly, even with misclassifications.
Efficient algorithm for CLSBM reduces misclassification rate.
The paper develops a method to learn cost-optimal sequential testing policies from retrospective data.
Training classification models on imbalanced data tends to result in bias towards the majority class. In this paper, we demonstrate how variable discretization and cost-sensitive logistic regression help mitigate this bias on an imbalanced credit scoring dataset, and further show the application of the variable discret…
Despite achieving remarkable success in various domains, recent studies have uncovered the vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial perturbations, creating concerns on model generalizability and new threats such as prediction-evasive misclassification or stealthy reprogramming. Among different defense propo…
We carefully study how well minimizing convex surrogate loss functions, corresponds to minimizing the misclassification error rate for the problem of binary classification with linear predictors. In particular, we show that amongst all convex surrogate losses, the hinge loss gives essentially the best possible bound, o…
Convolutional neural networks improve image classification accuracy.
In this study, a novel sparsity-driven weighted ensemble classifier (SDWEC) that improves classification accuracy and minimizes the number of classifiers is proposed. Using pre-trained classifiers, an ensemble in which base classifiers votes according to assigned weights is formed. These assigned weights directly affec…
New algorithms optimize time series classification speed and accuracy.
We consider the problem of -class classification (), where the classifier can choose to abstain from making predictions at a given cost, say, a factor of the cost of misclassification. Designing consistent algorithms for such -class classification problems with a `reject option' is the main goal of t…
We consider a high dimensional binary classification problem and construct a classification procedure by minimizing the empirical misclassification risk with a penalty on the number of selected features. We derive non-asymptotic probability bounds on the estimated sparsity as well as on the excess misclassification ris…
We study the misclassification error for community detection in general heterogeneous stochastic block models (SBM) with noisy or partial label information. We establish a connection between the misclassification rate and the notion of minimum energy on the local neighborhood of the SBM. We develop an optimally weighte…
Proposes a new loss function for better handling mislabeling costs.
Most binary classifiers work by processing the input to produce a scalar response and comparing it to a threshold value. The various measures of classifier performance assume, explicitly or implicitly, probability distributions and of the response belonging to either class, probability distributions for the…
Imbalanced data classification problem has always been a popular topic in the field of machine learning research. In order to balance the samples between majority and minority class. Oversampling algorithm is used to synthesize new minority class samples, but it could bring in noise. Pointing to the noise problems, thi…
Despite having excellent performances for a wide variety of tasks, modern neural networks are unable to provide a reliable confidence value allowing to detect misclassifications. This limitation is at the heart of what is known as an adversarial example, where the network provides a wrong prediction associated with a s…
Community detection is a fundamental statistical problem in network data analysis. Many algorithms have been proposed to tackle this problem. Most of these algorithms are not guaranteed to achieve the statistical optimality of the problem, while procedures that achieve information theoretic limits for general parameter…
Develops NPMC method for noisy labels, improving multiclass classification accuracy.
Gradient boosted trees outperform other models in predicting corporate bankruptcy.
Class imbalance problems manifest in domains such as financial fraud detection or network intrusion analysis, where the prevalence of one class is much higher than another. Typically, practitioners are more interested in predicting the minority class than the majority class as the minority class may carry a higher misc…
This research improves PAC-Bayesian bounds for classification tasks using convexified loss.
Develops algorithms for multi-class Neyman-Pearson classification with cost sensitivity.
Recommendation is the task of improving customer experience through personalized recommendation based on users' past feedback. In this paper, we investigate the most common scenario: the user-item (U-I) matrix of implicit feedback. Even though many recommendation approaches are designed based on implicit feedback, they…
We address the problem of learning to benchmark the best achievable classifier performance. In this problem the objective is to establish statistically consistent estimates of the Bayes misclassification error rate without having to learn a Bayes-optimal classifier. Our learning to benchmark framework improves on previ…