Rule-based prediction of rare extreme values

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2006

Autores

Rita Ribeiro (Autor) FCUP; Luis Torgo (Autor) FEP

Revista

Título: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Vol. 387

Páginas: 219-230

ISSN: 0302-9743

Editora: Springer Nature

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 2 Citações

Scopus - 1 Citação

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências exactas e naturais > Ciências da computação e da informação

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-004-PH8

DOI: 10.1007/11893318_23

Abstract (EN): This paper describes a rule learning method that obtains models biased towards a particular class of regression tasks. These tasks have as main distinguishing feature the fact that the main goal is to be accurate at predicting rare extreme values of the continuous target variable. Many real-world applications from scientific areas like ecology, meteorology, finance,etc., share this objective. Most existing approaches to regression problems search for the model parameters that optimize a given average error estimator (e.g. mean squared error). This means that they are biased towards achieving a good performance on the most common cases. The motivation for our work is the claim that being accurate at a small set of rare cases requires different error metrics. Moreover, given the nature and relevance of this type of applications an interpretable model is usually of key importance to domain experts, as predicting these rare events is normally associated with costly decisions. Our proposed system (R-PREV) obtains a set of interpretable regression rules derived from a set of bagged regression trees using evaluation metrics that bias the resulting models to predict accurately rare extreme values. We provide an experimental evaluation of our method confirming the advantages of our proposal in terms of accuracy in predicting rare extreme values.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 12