Title
Data Stream Classification using Active Learned Neural Networks
Abstract
Due to variety of modern real-life tasks, where analyzed data is often not a static set, the data stream mining gained a substantial focus of machine learning community. Main property of such systems is the large amount of data arriving in a sequential manner, which creates an endless stream of objects. Taking into consideration the limited resources as memory and computational power, it is widely accepted that each instance can be processed up once and it is not remembered, making reevaluation impossible. In the following work, we will focus on the data stream classification task where parameters of a classification model may vary over time, so the model should be able to adapt to the changes. It requires a forgetting mechanism, ensuring that outdated samples will not impact a model. The most popular approaches base on so-called windowing, requiring storage of a batch of objects and when new examples arrive, the least relevant ones are forgotten. Objects in a new window are used to retrain the model, which is cumbersome especially for online learners and contradicts the principle of processing each object at most once. Therefore, this work employs inbuilt forgetting mechanism of neural networks. Additionally, to reduce a need of expensive (sometimes even impossible) object labeling, we are focusing on active learning, which asks for labels only for interesting examples, crucial for appropriate model upgrading. Characteristics of proposed methods were evaluated on the basis of the computer experiments, performed over diverse pool of data streams. Their results confirmed the convenience of proposed strategy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.neucom.2018.05.130
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Pattern classification,Data stream,Active learning,Concept drift,Forgetting
Computer experiment,Forgetting,Data stream mining,Active learning,Data stream,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
353
0925-2312
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
23
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pawel Ksieniewicz1176.38
Michał Woźniak221324.64
Boguslaw Cyganek314524.53
Andrzej Kasprzak48820.35
Krzysztof Walkowiak545059.98