Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'05) A Boosting Approach to remove Class Label Noise Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 06-December 09 ISBN: 0-7695-2457-5
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICHIS.2005.1
Ensemble methods have been known to improve prediction accuracy over the base learning algorithm. AdaBoost is well-recognized for that in its class. However, it is susceptible to overfitting the training instances corrupted by class label noise. This paper proposes a modification to AdaBoost that is more tolerant to class label noise, which further enhances its ability to boost prediction accuracy. In particular, we observe that in Adaboost, the weight-hike of noisy examples can be constrained by careful application of a cut-off in their weights. Effectiveness of our algorithm is demonstrated empirically using some artificially generated data. We also corroborate this on a number of data sets from UCI repository [1]. In both experimental settings, the results obtained affirm the efficacy of our approach. Finally, some of the significant characteristics of our technique related to noisy environments have been investigated.
Citation:
Amitava Karmaker, Stephen Kwek, "A Boosting Approach to remove Class Label Noise," his, pp.206-211, Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'05), 2005 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||