Performance analysis of stacked generalization

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Stacked Generalization (SG) is an ensemble learning technique, which aims to increase the performance of individual classifiers by combining them under a hierarchical architecture. This study consists of two major parts. In the first part, the performance of Stacked Generalization technique is analyzed with respect to the performance of the individual classifiers and the content of the training data. In the second part, based on the findings for a new class of algorithms, called Meta-Fuzzified Yield Value (Meta-FYV) is introduced. The first part introduces and verifies two hypotheses by a set of controlled experiments to assure the performance gain for SG. The learning mechanisms of SG to achieve high performance are explored and the relationship between the performance of the individual classifiers and that of SG is investigated. It is shown that if the samples in the training set are correctly classified by at least one base layer classifier, then, the generalization performance of the SG is increased, compared to the performance of the individual classifiers. In the second hypothesis, the effect of the spurious samples, which are not correctly labeled by any of the base layer classifiers, is investigated. In the second part of the thesis, six theorems are constructed based on the analysis of the feature spaces and the stacked generalization architecture. Based on the theorems and hypothesis, a new class of SG algorithms is proposed. The experiments are performed on both Corel data and synthetically generated data, using parallel programming techniques, on a high performance cluster.

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Electronic computers.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/17874

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M. Özay, “Performance analysis of stacked generalization,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.