Training Instance Random Sampling Based Evidential Classification Forest Algorithms
Liyao Ma, Bin Sun, Chunyan Han · 2018
Modelling and handling epistemic uncertainty with belief function theory, different ways to learn classification forests from evidential training data are explored. In this paper, multiple base classifiers are learned on uncertain training subsets generated by training instance random sampling approach. For base classifier learning, with the tool of evidential likelihood function, gini impurity intervals of uncertain datasets are calculated for attribute splitting and consonant mass functions of labels are generated for leaf node prediction. The construction of gini impurity based belief binary classification tree is proposed and then compared with C4.5 belief classification tree. For base classifier combination strategy, both evidence combination method for consonant mass function outputs and majority voting method for precise label outputs are discussed. The performances of different proposed algorithms are compared and analysed with experiments on VCI Balance scale dataset.