An ensemble approach of dual base learners for multi-class classification problems. Sesmero, M., Alonso-Weber, J. M., Gutierrez, G., Ledezma, A., & Sanchis, A. Information Fusion, 24:122–136, 2015.
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In this work, we formalise and evaluate an ensemble of classifiers that is designed for the resolution of multi-class problems. To achieve a good accuracy rate, the base learners are built with pairwise coupled binary and multi-class classifiers. Moreover, to reduce the computational cost of the ensemble and to improve its performance, these classifiers are trained using a specific attribute subset. This proposal offers the opportunity to capture the advantages provided by binary decomposition methods, by attribute partitioning methods, and by cooperative characteristics associated with a combination of redundant base learners. To analyse the quality of this architecture, its performance has been tested on different domains, and the results have been compared to other well-known classification methods. This experimental evaluation indicates that our model is, in most cases, as accurate as these methods, but it is much more efficient.
@article{Sesmero2015,
abstract = {In this work, we formalise and evaluate an ensemble of classifiers that is designed for the resolution of multi-class problems. To achieve a good accuracy rate, the base learners are built with pairwise coupled binary and multi-class classifiers. Moreover, to reduce the computational cost of the ensemble and to improve its performance, these classifiers are trained using a specific attribute subset. This proposal offers the opportunity to capture the advantages provided by binary decomposition methods, by attribute partitioning methods, and by cooperative characteristics associated with a combination of redundant base learners. To analyse the quality of this architecture, its performance has been tested on different domains, and the results have been compared to other well-known classification methods. This experimental evaluation indicates that our model is, in most cases, as accurate as these methods, but it is much more efficient.},
author = {Sesmero, M.P. and Alonso-Weber, Juan M. and Gutierrez, German and Ledezma, A. and Sanchis, A.},
doi = {doi:10.1016/j.inffus.2014.09.002},
file = {:C$\backslash$:/Paz/Articulos/InformationFusion/Sesmero2015b.pdf:pdf},
issn = {1566-2535},
journal = {Information Fusion},
keywords = {Artificial Neural Networks,Diversity,Ensemble of classifiers,Feature Selection,Multi-class classification},
pages = {122--136},
title = {{An ensemble approach of dual base learners for multi-class classification problems}},
url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156625351400102X},
volume = {24},
year = {2015}
}

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