A META-LEARNING METHOD FOR CONCEPT DRIFT

Runxin Wang, Lei Shi, Mícheál Ó. Foghlú, Eric Robson

2010

Abstract

The knowledge hidden in evolving data may change with time, this issue is known as concept drift. It often causes a learning system to decrease its prediction accuracy. Most existing techniques apply ensemble methods to improve learning performance on concept drift. In this paper, we propose a novel meta learning approach for this issue and develop a method: Multi-Step Learning (MSL). In our method, a MSL learner is structured in a recursive manner, which contains all the base learners maintained in a hierarchy, ensuring the learned concepts are traceable. We evaluated MSL and two ensemble techniques on three synthetic datasets, which contain a number of drastic concept drifts. The experimental results show that the proposed method generally performs better than the ensemble techniques in terms of prediction accuracy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wang R., Shi L., Foghlú M. and Robson E. (2010). A META-LEARNING METHOD FOR CONCEPT DRIFT . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-28-7, pages 257-262. DOI: 10.5220/0003095502570262

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir10,
author={Runxin Wang and Lei Shi and Mícheál Ó. Foghlú and Eric Robson},
title={A META-LEARNING METHOD FOR CONCEPT DRIFT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={257-262},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003095502570262},
isbn={978-989-8425-28-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)
TI - A META-LEARNING METHOD FOR CONCEPT DRIFT
SN - 978-989-8425-28-7
AU - Wang R.
AU - Shi L.
AU - Foghlú M.
AU - Robson E.
PY - 2010
SP - 257
EP - 262
DO - 10.5220/0003095502570262