2023

rozdział w monografii naukowej / referat

angielski

EN The wealth of data being gathered about humans and their surroundings drives new machine learning applications in various fields. Consequently, more and more often, classifiers are trained using not only numerical data but also complex data objects. For example, multi-omics analyses attempt to combine numerical descriptions with distributions, time series data, discrete sequences, and graphs. Such integration of data from different domains requires either omitting some of the data, creating separate models for different formats, or simplifying some of the data to adhere to a shared scale and format, all of which can hinder predictive performance. In this paper, we propose a classification method capable of handling datasets with features of arbitrary data types while retaining each feature’s characteristic. The proposed algorithm, called Random Similarity Forest, uses multiple domain-specific distance measures to combine the predictive performance of Random Forests with the flexibility of Similarity Forests. We show that Random Similarity Forests are on par with Random Forests on numerical data and outperform them on datasets from complex or mixed data domains. Our results highlight the applicability of Random Similarity Forests to noisy, multi-source datasets that are becoming ubiquitous in high-impact life science projects.

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10.1007/978-3-031-26419-1_4

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-26419-1_4

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases : European Conference, ECML PKDD 2022, Grenoble, France, September 19–23, 2022, Proceedings, Part V

European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases ECML PKDD 2022, 19-23.09.2022, Grenoble, France

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