Combining Multiple Pairwise Neural Networks Classifiers: A Comparative Study

Olivier Lezoray, Hubert Cardot

2005

Abstract

Classifier combination constitutes an interesting approach when solving multiclass classification problems. We review standard methods used to decode the decomposition generated by a one-against-one approach. New decoding methods are proposed and are compared to standard methods. A stacking decoding is also proposed and consists in replacing the whole decoding by a trainable classifier to arbiter among the conflicting predictions of the binary classifiers. Substantial gain is obtained on all datasets used in the experiments.

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Lezoray O. and Cardot H. (2005). Combining Multiple Pairwise Neural Networks Classifiers: A Comparative Study . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2005) ISBN 972-8865-36-8, pages 52-61. DOI: 10.5220/0001193700520061


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@conference{anniip05,
author={Olivier Lezoray and Hubert Cardot},
title={Combining Multiple Pairwise Neural Networks Classifiers: A Comparative Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={52-61},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001193700520061},
isbn={972-8865-36-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks and Intelligent Information Processing - Volume 1: ANNIIP, (ICINCO 2005)
TI - Combining Multiple Pairwise Neural Networks Classifiers: A Comparative Study
SN - 972-8865-36-8
AU - Lezoray O.
AU - Cardot H.
PY - 2005
SP - 52
EP - 61
DO - 10.5220/0001193700520061