An up-to-date comparison of state-of-the-art classification algorithms
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Chongsheng | |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, Changchang | |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Xiangliang | |
dc.contributor.author | Almpanidis, George | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-31T11:23:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-31T11:23:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-04-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Zhang C, Liu C, Zhang X, Almpanidis G (2017) An up-to-date comparison of state-of-the-art classification algorithms. Expert Systems with Applications 82: 128–150. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.003. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0957-4174 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/623791 | |
dc.description.abstract | Current benchmark reports of classification algorithms generally concern common classifiers and their variants but do not include many algorithms that have been introduced in recent years. Moreover, important properties such as the dependency on number of classes and features and CPU running time are typically not examined. In this paper, we carry out a comparative empirical study on both established classifiers and more recently proposed ones on 71 data sets originating from different domains, publicly available at UCI and KEEL repositories. The list of 11 algorithms studied includes Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), Sparse Representation based Classification (SRC), and Deep Learning (DL), which have not been thoroughly investigated in existing comparative studies. It is found that Stochastic Gradient Boosting Trees (GBDT) matches or exceeds the prediction performance of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Random Forests (RF), while being the fastest algorithm in terms of prediction efficiency. ELM also yields good accuracy results, ranking in the top-5, alongside GBDT, RF, SVM, and C4.5 but this performance varies widely across all data sets. Unsurprisingly, top accuracy performers have average or slow training time efficiency. DL is the worst performer in terms of accuracy but second fastest in prediction efficiency. SRC shows good accuracy performance but it is the slowest classifier in both training and testing. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work is partially funded by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under Grant no. 41401466 and 61300215, as well as Henan Science and Technology Project under Grant no. 132102210188. It is also supported by Henan University under Grant no. xxjc20140005 and 2013YBZR014. The authors acknowledge the help of Ms. Jingjun Bi on reorganising the experimental results. | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV | |
dc.relation.url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417417302397 | |
dc.rights | NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Expert Systems with Applications. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Expert Systems with Applications, [82, , (2017-04-05)] DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2017.04.003 . © 2017. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Classification benchmarking | |
dc.subject | Classifier comparison | |
dc.subject | Classifier evaluation | |
dc.title | An up-to-date comparison of state-of-the-art classification algorithms | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | Computer Science Program | |
dc.contributor.department | Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division | |
dc.identifier.journal | Expert Systems with Applications | |
dc.eprint.version | Post-print | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University, KaiFeng, 475001, China | |
kaust.person | Zhang, Xiangliang | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-04-05T00:00:00Z | |
dc.date.published-online | 2017-04-05 | |
dc.date.published-print | 2017-10 |
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