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Dealing with Class Overlap Through Cluster-Based Sample Weighting

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Patrick Thiam *
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Friedhelm Schwenker *
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Hans A. Kestler
DOI:10.3390/computers14110457delete
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The classification performance of an inference model trained in a supervised manner depends substantially on the size and quality of the labeled training data. The characteristics of the underlying data distribution significantly impact the generalization ability of a trained model, particularly in cases where some class overlap can be observed. In such cases, training a single model on the entirety of the labeled data can result in an increase in the complexity of the resulting decision boundary, leading to over-fitting and consequently to some poor generalization performance. In the current work, a cluster-based sample weighting approach is proposed in order to improve the generalization ability of a classification model while dealing with such complex data distributions. The approach consists of first performing a clustering of the training data and subsequently optimizing cluster-specific classification models, using a weighted loss based on the samples-to-cluster-center distances. An unseen sample is first assigned a cluster and subsequently classified based on the model specific to its assigned cluster. The proposed approach was evaluated on three different pain recognition datasets, and the performed evaluation showed that the approach is not only able to attain state-of-the-art classification performances but also systematically outperforms its single model counterpart.
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