An Active Learning Algorithm Based on the Distribution Principle of Bhattacharyya Distance

He Xu, Chunyue Ding, Peng Li and Yimu Ji
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He Xu: School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Chunyue Ding: School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Peng Li: School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
Yimu Ji: School of Computer Science, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-15

Abstract: Active learning is a method that can actively select examples with much information from a large number of unlabeled samples to query labeled by experts, so as to obtain a high-precision classifier with a small number of samples. Most of the current research uses the basic principles to optimize the classifier at each iteration, but the batch query with the largest amount of information in each round does not represent the overall distribution of the sample, that is, it may fall into partial optimization and ignore the whole, which will may affect or reduce its accuracy. In order to solve this problem, a special distance measurement method—Bhattacharyya Distance—is used in this paper. By using this distance and designing a new set of query decision logic, we can improve the accuracy of the model. Our method embodies the query of the samples with the most representative distribution and the largest amount of information to realize the classification task based on a small number of samples. We perform theoretical proofs and experimental analysis. Finally, we use different data sets and compare them with other classification algorithms to evaluate the performance and efficiency of our algorithm.

Keywords: machine learning classification; bhattacharyya distance; active learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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