Better classifier calibration for small datasets |
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Author: | Alasalmi, Tuomo1; Suutala, Jaakko1; Röning, Juha1; |
Organizations: |
1University of Oulu, Finland 2Oura Health Ltd., Finland |
Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.6 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020052739290 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Association for Computing Machinery,
2020
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Publish Date: | 2020-05-27 |
Description: |
AbstractClassifier calibration does not always go hand in hand with the classifier’s ability to separate the classes. There are applications where good classifier calibration, i.e., the ability to produce accurate probability estimates, is more important than class separation. When the amount of data for training is limited, the traditional approach to improve calibration starts to crumble. In this article, we show how generating more data for calibration is able to improve calibration algorithm performance in many cases where a classifier is not naturally producing well-calibrated outputs and the traditional approach fails. The proposed approach adds computational cost but considering that the main use case is with small datasets this extra computational cost stays insignificant and is comparable to other methods in prediction time. From the tested classifiers, the largest improvement was detected with the random forest and naive Bayes classifiers. Therefore, the proposed approach can be recommended at least for those classifiers when the amount of data available for training is limited and good calibration is essential. see all
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Series: |
ACM transactions on knowledge discovery from data |
ISSN: | 1556-4681 |
ISSN-E: | 1556-472X |
ISSN-L: | 1556-4681 |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 1 - 19 |
Article number: | 34 |
DOI: | 10.1145/3385656 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1145/3385656 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
113 Computer and information sciences |
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Funding: |
The authors would like to thank Infotech Oulu, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Tauno Tönning Foundation, and Walter Ahlström Foundation for financial support of this work. |
Copyright information: |
© 2020 Association for Computing Machinery. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, https://doi.org/10.1145/3385656. |