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Stacking With Auxiliary Features

Computation and Language 2016-05-30 v1 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning

Abstract

Ensembling methods are well known for improving prediction accuracy. However, they are limited in the sense that they cannot discriminate among component models effectively. In this paper, we propose stacking with auxiliary features that learns to fuse relevant information from multiple systems to improve performance. Auxiliary features enable the stacker to rely on systems that not just agree on an output but also the provenance of the output. We demonstrate our approach on three very different and difficult problems -- the Cold Start Slot Filling, the Tri-lingual Entity Discovery and Linking and the ImageNet object detection tasks. We obtain new state-of-the-art results on the first two tasks and substantial improvements on the detection task, thus verifying the power and generality of our approach.

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@article{arxiv.1605.08764,
  title  = {Stacking With Auxiliary Features},
  author = {Nazneen Fatema Rajani and Raymond J. Mooney},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08764},
  year   = {2016}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1604.04802

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