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Efficient Decoding of Ternary Error-Correcting Output Codes for Multiclass Classification
Type of publication: Inproceedings
Citation: jf:ECML-09-QuickECOC
Booktitle: Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD 2009, Bled, Slovenia), Part II
Year: 2009
Pages: 189--204
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04174-7_13
Abstract: We present an adaptive decoding algorithm for ternary ECOC matrices which reduces the number of needed classifier evaluations for multiclass classification. The resulting predictions are guaranteed to be equivalent with the original decoding strategy except for ambiguous final predictions. The technique works for Hamming Decoding and several commonly used alternative decoding strategies. We show its effectiveness in an extensive empirical evaluation considering various code design types: Nearly in all cases, a considerable reduction is possible. We also show that the performance gain depends on the sparsity and the dimension of the ECOC coding matrix.
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Authors Park, Sang-Hyeun
Fürnkranz, Johannes
Editors Buntine, Wray L.
Grobelnik, Marko
Mladenić, Dunja
Shawe-Taylor, John
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