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Cost-sensitive elimination of mislabeled training data
Information Sciences
  • Donghai Guan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Weiwei Yuan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Tinghuai Ma, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
  • Asad Masood Khattak, Zayed University
  • Francis Chow, Zayed University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-2017
Abstract

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Accurately labeling training data plays a critical role in various supervised learning tasks. Since labeling in practical applications might be erroneous due to various reasons, a wide range of algorithms have been developed to eliminate mislabeled data. These algorithms may make the following two types of errors: identifying a noise-free data as mislabeled, or identifying a mislabeled data as noise free. The effects of these errors may generate different costs, depending on the training datasets and applications. However, the cost variations are usually ignored thus existing works are not optimal regarding costs. In this work, the novel problem of cost-sensitive mislabeled data filtering is studied. By wrapping a cost-minimizing procedure, we propose the prototype cost-sensitive ensemble learning based mislabeled data filtering algorithm, named CSENF. Based on CSENF, we further propose two novel algorithms: the cost-sensitive repeated majority filtering algorithm CSRMF and cost-sensitive repeated consensus filtering algorithm CSRCF. Compared to CSENF, these two algorithms could estimate the mislabeling probability of each training data more confidently. Therefore, they produce less cost compared to CSENF and cost-blind mislabeling filters. Empirical and theoretical evaluations on a set of benchmark datasets illustrate the superior performance of the proposed methods.

Publisher
Elsevier Inc.
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Cost-sensitive,
  • Ensemble learning,
  • Mislabeled data filtering
Scopus ID
85016576498
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2017.03.034
Citation Information
Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan, Tinghuai Ma, Asad Masood Khattak, et al.. "Cost-sensitive elimination of mislabeled training data" Information Sciences Vol. 402 (2017) p. 170 - 181 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/0020-0255" target="_blank">0020-0255</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/asad-khattak/31/