Title : 
Diversity/accuracy and ensemble classifier design
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
CVSSP, Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
For an ensemble of multi-layer perceptrons (MLP), test error is shown in this paper to be well correlated with a diversity/accuracy measure computed between pairs of patterns. A weighted combination that uses the proposed measure to set the weights is shown to be less sensitive to the number of training epochs compared with majority vote.
         
        
            Keywords : 
multilayer perceptrons; pattern classification; diversity/accuracy measure; ensemble classifier design; multilayer perceptrons; pattern classification; training epochs; Bagging; Classification tree analysis; Computer architecture; Decision trees; Design optimization; Interconnected systems; Multilayer perceptrons; Q measurement; Testing; Voting;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7695-2128-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334564