%0 Journal Article
%T Using Hybrid and Diversity-Based Adaptive Ensemble Method for Binary Classification
%A Xing Fan
%A Chung-Horng Lung
%A Samuel A. Ajila
%J International Journal of Intelligence Science
%P 43-74
%@ 2163-0356
%D 2018
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ijis.2018.83003
%X <span style=\"font-family:&quot;\">This paper proposes an adaptive and diverse hybrid-based ensemble method
to improve the performance of binary classification. The proposed method is a
non-linear combination of base models and the application of adaptive selection
of the most suitable model for each data instance. Ensemble method, an
important machine learning technique uses multiple single models to construct a
hybrid model. A hybrid model generally performs better compared to a single
individual model. In a given dataset the application of diverse single models
trained with different machine learning algorithms will have different
capabilities in recognizing patterns in the given training sample. The proposed
approach has been validated on Repeat Buyers Prediction dataset and Census
Income Prediction dataset. The experiment results indicate up to 18.5%
improvement on F<sub>1</sub> score for the Repeat Buyers dataset compared to
the best individual model. This improvement also indicates that the proposed
ensemble method has an exceptional ability of dealing with imbalanced datasets.
In addition, the proposed method outperforms two other commonly used ensemble
methods (Averaging and Stacking) in terms of improved F<sub>1</sub> score.
Finally, our results produced a slightly higher AUC score of 0.718 compared to
the previous result of AUC score of 0.712 in the Repeat Buyers competition.
This roughly 1% increase AUC score in performance is significant considering a
very big dataset such as Repeat Buyers.</span>
%K Bigdata Analytics
%K Machine Learning
%K Adaptive Ensemble Methods
%K Binary Classification
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=86287