A new robust classifier on noise domains: bagging of Credal C4.5 trees (Q1694254)

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A new robust classifier on noise domains: bagging of Credal C4.5 trees
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    A new robust classifier on noise domains: bagging of Credal C4.5 trees (English)
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    1 February 2018
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    Summary: The knowledge extraction from data with noise or outliers is a complex problem in the data mining area. Normally, it is not easy to eliminate those problematic instances. To obtain information from this type of data, robust classifiers are the best option to use. One of them is the application of bagging scheme on weak single classifiers. The Credal C4.5 (CC4.5) model is a new classification tree procedure based on the classical C4.5 algorithm and imprecise probabilities. It represents a type of the so-called \textit{credal trees}. It has been proven that CC4.5 is more robust to noise than C4.5 method and even than other previous credal tree models. In this paper, the performance of the CC4.5 model in bagging schemes on noisy domains is shown. An experimental study on data sets with added noise is carried out in order to compare results where bagging schemes are applied on credal trees and C4.5 procedure. As a benchmark point, the known Random Forest (RF) classification method is also used. It will be shown that the bagging ensemble using pruned credal trees outperforms the successful bagging C4.5 and RF when data sets with medium-to-high noise level are classified.
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    knowledge extraction
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    data mining
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    robust classifiers
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    CC4.5 model
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    Random Forest (RF) classification
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