In this paper we investigate the performance of pairwise (or round robin) classification, originally a technique for turning multi-class problems into two-class problems, as a general ensemble technique. In particular, we show that the use of round robin ensembles will also increase the classification performance of decision tree learners, which could directly handle multi-class problems. The p...

To identify the societal risk category of the posts of Tianya Club, several studies are carried out toward the posts of Tianya Club. With 2-month manually risk labeled new posts published during December of 2011 to January of 2012, statistical analysis of posts is conducted at first. Later, similarity analysis of posts from one risk category, different risk categories and published on different...

BACKGROUND Microarray techniques provide promising tools for cancer diagnosis using gene expression profiles. However, molecular diagnosis based on high-throughput platforms presents great challenges due to the overwhelming number of variables versus the small sample size and the complex nature of multi-type tumors. Support vector machines (SVMs) have shown superior performance in cancer classi...

Ordinal regression problem and general multi-class classification problem are important and on-going research subject in machine learning. Support vector ordinal regression machine (SVORM) is an effective method for ordinal regression problem and has been used to deal with general multi-class classification problem. Up to now it is always assumed implicitly that the training data are known exac...

We study supervised and semi-supervised algorithms in the set-valued classification framework with controlled expected size. While former methods can use only n labeled samples, latter are able to make of N additional unlabeled data. obtain minimax rates convergence under α-margin assumption a β-Hölder condition on conditional distribution labels. Our analysis implies that if no further is made...