Classification as a supervised learning concept is an important content in machine learning. It aims at categorizing a set of data into classes. There are several commonly-used classification methods nowadays such as k-nearest neighbors, random forest, and support vector machine. Each of them has its own pros and cons, and none of them is invincible for all kinds of problems. In this thesis, we focus on Quadratic Multiform Separation (QMS), a classification method recently proposed by Michael Fan et al. (2019). Its fresh concept, rich mathematical structure, and innovative definition of loss function set it apart from the existing classification methods. Inspired by QMS, we propose utilizing a gradient-based optimization method, Adam, to obtain a classifier that minimizes the QMS-specific loss function. In addition, we provide suggestions regarding model tuning through explorations of the relationships between hyperparameters and accuracies. Our empirical result shows that QMS performs as good as most classification methods in terms of accuracy. Its superior performance is almost comparable to those of gradient boosting algorithms that win massive machine learning competitions.

This paper proposes two strategies to handle missing data for the classification of electroencephalograms using covariance matrices. The first approach estimates the covariance from imputed data with the $k$-nearest neighbors algorithm; the second relies on the observed data by leveraging the observed-data likelihood within an expectation-maximization algorithm. Both approaches are combined with the minimum distance to Riemannian mean classifier and applied to a classification task of event related-potentials, a widely known paradigm of brain-computer interface paradigms. As results show, the proposed strategies perform better than the classification based on observed data and allow to keep a high accuracy even when the missing data ratio increases.

A single-PDF version of Model Evaluation parts 1-4 is available on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12808 Almost every machine learning algorithm comes with a large number of settings that we, the machine learning researchers and practitioners, need to specify. These tuning knobs, the so-called hyperparameters, help us control the behavior of machine learning algorithms when optimizing for performance, finding the right balance between bias and variance. Hyperparameter tuning for performance optimization is an art in itself, and there are no hard-and-fast rules that guarantee best performance on a given dataset. In Part I and Part II, we saw different holdout and bootstrap techniques for estimating the generalization performance of a model. We learned about the bias-variance trade-off, and we computed the uncertainty of our estimates. In this third part, we will focus on different methods of cross-validation for model evaluation and model selection. We will use these cross-validation techniques to rank models from several hyperparameter configurations and estimate how well they generalize to independent datasets.

Auto dataset available in R, ISLR package was used for this analysis. Purpose of ML model Predict the car mileage per gallon based on features like weight and year of manufacture. KNN (K-Nearest Neighbor) regression model is being used. Process for Creating ML Model - Divide dataset into train and test sets, 65% and 35% approximately. This resulted in a MSE of 15.25 - Applied KNN regression for 50 k-values and computed mean squared error.

Modern pattern recognition tasks use complex algorithms that take advantage of large datasets to make more accurate predictions than traditional algorithms such as decision trees or k-nearest-neighbor better suited to describe simple structures. While increased accuracy is often crucial, less complexity also has value. This paper proposes a training data selection algorithm that identifies multiple subsets with simple structures. A learning algorithm trained on such a subset can classify an instance belonging to the subset with better accuracy than the traditional learning algorithms. In other words, while existing pattern recognition algorithms attempt to learn a global mapping function to represent the entire dataset, we argue that an ensemble of simple local patterns may better describe the data. Hence the sub-setting algorithm identifies multiple subsets with simple local patterns by identifying similar instances in the neighborhood of an instance. This motivation has similarities to that of gradient boosted trees but focuses on the explainability of the model that is missing for boosted trees. The proposed algorithm thus balances accuracy and explainable machine learning by identifying a limited number of subsets with simple structures. We applied the proposed algorithm to the international stroke dataset to predict the probability of survival. Our bottom-up sub-setting algorithm performed on an average 15% better than the top-down decision tree learned on the entire dataset. The different decision trees learned on the identified subsets use some of the previously unused features by the whole dataset decision tree, and each subset represents a distinct population of data.

SUNNY is an Algorithm Selection (AS) technique originally tailored for Constraint Programming (CP). SUNNY is based on the k-nearest neighbors algorithm and enables one to schedule, from a portfolio of solvers, a subset of solvers to be run on a given CP problem. This approach has proved to be effective for CP problems. In 2015, the ASlib benchmarks were released for comparing AS systems coming from disparate fields (e.g., ASP, QBF, and SAT) and SUNNY was extended to deal with generic AS problems. This led to the development of sunny-as, a prototypical algorithm selector based on SUNNY for ASlib scenarios. A major improvement of sunny-as, called sunny-as2, was then submitted to the Open Algorithm Selection Challenge (OASC) in 2017, where it turned out to be the best approach for the runtime minimization of decision problems. In this work we present the technical advancements of sunny-as2, by detailing through several empirical evaluations and by providing new insights. Its current version, built on the top of the preliminary version submitted to OASC, is able to outperform sunny-as and other state-of-the-art AS methods, including those who did not attend the challenge.

The Time series classification is a very common task where you will have data from various domains like Signal processing, IoT, human activity, and more and the ultimate aim is to train a specific model so that it can predict the class of any time series with almost perfect accuracy. The given dataset should have labeled time sequences so that our model can predict the class of the time series accurately. One Classic solution to this problem is by using the method of the K Nearest neighbor algorithm. Here in this article, we are going to skip over the usual approach of Euclidean distance and we will use the Dynamic Time Warping or DTW metric. This method does take into consideration that when we are comparing two different time series, they might vary in length and speed.

Abdominal ultrasound imaging has been widely used to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of various abdominal organs. In order to shorten the examination time and reduce the cognitive burden on the sonographers, we present a classification method that combines the deep learning techniques and k-Nearest-Neighbor (k-NN) classification to automatically recognize various abdominal organs in the ultrasound images in real time. Fine-tuned deep neural networks are used in combination with PCA dimension reduction to extract high-level features from raw ultrasound images, and a k-NN classifier is employed to predict the abdominal organ in the image. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in the task of ultrasound image classification to automatically recognize six abdominal organs. A comprehensive comparison of different configurations is conducted to study the influence of different feature extractors and classifiers on the classification accuracy. Both quantitative and qualitative results show that with minimal training effort, our method can "lazily" recognize the abdominal organs in the ultrasound images in real time with an accuracy of 96.67%. Our implementation code is publicly available at: https://github.com/LeeKeyu/abdominal_ultrasound_classification.

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It is probably, one of the simplest but strong supervised learning algorithms used for classification as well regression purposes. It is most commonly used to classify the data points that are separated into several classes, in order to make predictions for new sample data points. It is a non-parametric and lazy learning algorithm. It classifies the data points based on the similarity measure (e.g. Principle: K- NN algorithm is based on the principle that, "the similar things exist closer to each other or Like things are near to each other."