Title
A new ensemble diversity measure applied to thinning ensembles
Abstract
We introduce a new way of describing the diversity of an ensemble of classifiers, the Percentage Correct Diversity Measure, and compare it against existing methods. We then introduce two new methods for removing classifiers from an ensemble based on diversity calculations. Empirical results for twelve datasets from the UC Irvine repository show that diversity is generally modeled by our measure and ensembles can be made smaller without loss in accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1007/3-540-44938-8_31
Multiple Classifier Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
empirical result,twelve datasets,uc irvine repository show,diversity calculation,percentage correct diversity measure,new method,new ensemble diversity measure
Data mining,Ensemble diversity,Thinning,Diversity measure,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2709
0302-9743
3-540-40369-8
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
45
2.23
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert E. Banfield135817.16
Lawrence O. Hall25543335.87
Kevin W. Bowyer311121734.33
W. Philip Kegelmeyer43498146.54