Canonical Forest

Yu-Chuan Chen, Hyejung Ha, Hyunjoong Kim and Hongshik Ahn ()

Computational Statistics, 2014, vol. 29, issue 3, 849-867

Abstract: We propose a new classification ensemble method named Canonical Forest. The new method uses canonical linear discriminant analysis (CLDA) and bootstrapping to obtain accurate and diverse classifiers that constitute an ensemble. We note CLDA serves as a linear transformation tool rather than a dimension reduction tool. Since CLDA will find the transformed space that separates the classes farther in distribution, classifiers built on this space will be more accurate than those on the original space. To further facilitate the diversity of the classifiers in an ensemble, CLDA is applied only on a partial feature space for each bootstrapped data. To compare the performance of Canonical Forest and other widely used ensemble methods, we tested them on 29 real or artificial data sets. Canonical Forest performed significantly better in accuracy than other ensemble methods in most data sets. According to the investigation on the bias and variance decomposition, the success of Canonical Forest can be attributed to the variance reduction. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Canonical linear discriminant analysis; Classification; Ensemble; Linear discriminant analysis; Rotation Forest (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/s00180-013-0466-x

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