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15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00) - Volume 2
Is Independence Good For Combining Classifiers?
Barcelona, Spain
September 03-September 08
ISBN: 0-7695-0750-6
L.I. Kuncheva, University of Wales
C.J. Whitaker, University of Wales
C.A. Shipp, University of Wales
R.P.W. Duin, Delft University of Technology
Independence between individual classifiers is typically viewed as an asset in classifier fusion. We study the limits on the majority vote accuracy when combining dependent classifiers. Q statistics are used to measure the dependence between classifiers. We show that dependent classifiers could offer a dramatic improvement over the individual accuracy. However, the relationship between dependency and accuracy of the pool is ambivalent. A synthetic experiment demonstrates the intuitive result that; in general, negative dependence is preferable.
Citation:
L.I. Kuncheva, C.J. Whitaker, C.A. Shipp, R.P.W. Duin, "Is Independence Good For Combining Classifiers?," icpr, vol. 2, pp.2168, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00) - Volume 2, 2000
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