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Handling class overlapping to detect noisy instances in classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2018

Shivani Gupta  and
Atul Gupta
Shivani Gupta
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 482001, India e-mail: shivani.panchal@iiitdmj.ac.in, atul@iiitdmj.ac.in
Atul Gupta
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 482001, India e-mail: shivani.panchal@iiitdmj.ac.in, atul@iiitdmj.ac.in
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Abstract

Automated machine classification will play a vital role in the machine learning and data mining. It is probable that each classifier will work well on some data sets and not so well in others, increasing the evaluation significance. The performance of the learning models will intensely rely on upon the characteristics of the data sets. The previous outcomes recommend that overlapping between classes and the presence of noise has the most grounded impact on the performance of learning algorithm. The class overlap problem is a critical problem in which data samples appear as valid instances of more than one class which may be responsible for the presence of noise in data sets.

The objective of this paper is to comprehend better the data used as a part of machine learning problems so as to learn issues and to analyze the instances that are profoundly covered by utilizing new proposed overlap measures. The proposed overlap measures are Nearest Enemy Ratio, SubConcept Ratio, Likelihood Ratio and Soft Margin Ratio. To perform this experiment, we have created 438 binary classification data sets from real-world problems and computed the value of 12 data complexity metrics to find highly overlapped data sets. After that we apply measures to identify the overlapped instances and four noise filters to find the noisy instances. From results, we found that 60–80% overlapped instances are noisy instances in data sets by using four noise filters. We found that class overlap is a principal contributor to introduce class noise in data sets.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 33 , 2018 , e8
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© Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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