Title
A survey on ensemble learning
Abstract
Despite significant successes achieved in knowledge discovery, traditional machine learning methods may fail to obtain satisfactory performances when dealing with complex data, such as imbalanced, high-dimensional, noisy data, etc. The reason behind is that it is difficult for these methods to capture multiple characteristics and underlying structure of data. In this context, it becomes an important topic in the data mining field that how to effectively construct an efficient knowledge discovery and mining model. Ensemble learning, as one research hot spot, aims to integrate data fusion, data modeling, and data mining into a unified framework. Specifically, ensemble learning firstly extracts a set of features with a variety of transformations. Based on these learned features, multiple learning algorithms are utilized to produce weak predictive results. Finally, ensemble learning fuses the informative knowledge from the above results obtained to achieve knowledge discovery and better predictive performance via voting schemes in an adaptive way. In this paper, we review the research progress of the mainstream approaches of ensemble learning and classify them based on different characteristics. In addition, we present challenges and possible research directions for each mainstream approach of ensemble learning, and we also give an extra introduction for the combination of ensemble learning with other machine learning hot spots such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, etc.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s11704-019-8208-z
Frontiers of Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
ensemble learning, supervised ensemble classification, semi-supervised ensemble classification, clustering ensemble, semi-supervised clustering ensemble
Data modeling,Voting,Computer science,Complex data type,Sensor fusion,Knowledge extraction,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Ensemble learning,Machine learning,Reinforcement learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
2
2095-2236
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.58
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xibin Dong1120.92
Zhiwen Yu26510.06
Wen-Ming Cao32611.53
Yifan Shi4172.31
Qianli Ma5205.80