Selectively ensembling neural classifiers
Zhihua Zhou, Jianxin Wu, Wei Yieng Tang, Zhao-Qian Chen · 2003
Ensembling neural classifiers can significantly improve the generalization ability of classification systems. In this paper, GASEN, a genetic algorithm based selective ensemble method, that has been shown to be excellent in ensembling neural regressors, is applied to neural classifiers. Experiments on four large data sets show that this method can generate ensembles of neural classifiers with stronger generalization ability than those generated by Bagging, Adaboost, or Arc-x4.