Information Theoretic Combination of Classifiers With Application to Multiple SVMs
Combining several classifiers has proved to be an efficient machine learning technique. Two concepts influence clearly the efficiency of an ensemble: the diversity between classifiers and the individual accuracies of the classifiers. We use an information theoretic framework to establish a link between these quantities and as they appear to be contradictory, we propose an information theoretic measure that express a trade-off between individual accuracy and diversity. This technique can be directly adapted for the selection of an ensemble in a pool of classifiers. We then consider the particular case of multiple Support Vector Machines using this new measure. We will cover genetic algorithm optimization as well as a adaptation of the Kernel-Adatron algorithm to online learning of multiple SVMs. The results are compared to standard multiple SVMs techniques.
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