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In this paper, an Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) based technique for Multi-label classification problems is proposed and discussed. In multi-label classification, each of the input data samples belongs to one or more than one class labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Rajasekar Venkatesan , Meng Joo Er

In this paper we present a novel mathematical optimization-based methodology to construct tree-shaped classification rules for multiclass instances. Our approach consists of building Classification Trees in which, except for the leaf nodes,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Víctor Blanco , Alberto Japón , Justo Puerto

We present a new perspective on the popular multi-class algorithmic techniques of one-vs-all and error correcting output codes. Rather than studying the behavior of these techniques for supervised learning, we establish a connection between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Maria Florina Balcan , Travis Dick , Yishay Mansour

Class ambiguity is typical in image classification problems with a large number of classes. When classes are difficult to discriminate, it makes sense to allow k guesses and evaluate classifiers based on the top-k error instead of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-23 Maksim Lapin , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

The literature on "benign overfitting" in overparameterized models has been mostly restricted to regression or binary classification; however, modern machine learning operates in the multiclass setting. Motivated by this discrepancy, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-13 Ke Wang , Vidya Muthukumar , Christos Thrampoulidis

This paper offers a comprehensive review of one-class classification (OCC), examining the technologies and methodologies employed in its implementation. It delves into various approaches utilized for OCC across diverse data types, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Toshitaka Hayashi , Dalibor Cimr , Hamido Fujita , Richard Cimler

Multiclass classification is a fundamental and challenging task in machine learning. The existing techniques of multiclass classification can be categorized as (i) decomposition into binary (ii) extension from binary and (iii) hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Gongjin Lan , Zhenyu Gao , Lingyao Tong , Ting Liu

We propose several novel methods for enhancing the multi-class SVMs by applying the generalization performance of binary classifiers as the core idea. This concept will be applied on the existing algorithms, i.e., the Decision Directed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-12 Patoomsiri Songsiri , Thimaporn Phetkaew , Boonserm Kijsirikul

Class imbalance is an intrinsic characteristic of multi-label data. Most of the labels in multi-label data sets are associated with a small number of training examples, much smaller compared to the size of the data set. Class imbalance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Bin Liu , Grigorios Tsoumakas

New bounds on classification error rates for the error-correcting output code (ECOC) approach in machine learning are presented. These bounds have exponential decay complexity with respect to codeword length and theoretically validate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Hieu D. Nguyen , Mohammed Sarosh Khan , Nicholas Kaegi , Shen-Shyang Ho , Jonathan Moore , Logan Borys , Lucas Lavalva

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) were primarily designed for 2-class classification. But they have been extended for N-class classification also based on the requirement of multiclasses in the practical applications. Although N-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Aruna Govada , Bhavul Gauri , S. K. Sahay

In recent years, deep neural network is widely used in machine learning. The multi-class classification problem is a class of important problem in machine learning. However, in order to solve those types of multi-class classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Qizhi Zhang , Kuang-Chih Lee , Hongying Bao , Yuan You , Wenjie Li , Dongbai Guo

The one-class classification problem is a well-known research endeavor in pattern recognition. The problem is also known under different names, such as outlier and novelty/anomaly detection. The core of the problem consists in modeling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Lorenzo Livi , Alireza Sadeghian , Witold Pedrycz

Accurate and reliable probability predictions are essential for multi-class supervised learning tasks, where well-calibrated models enable rational decision-making. While isotonic regression has proven effective for binary calibration, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Alon Arad , Saharon Rosset

In multiclass classification, the goal is to learn how to predict a random label $Y$, valued in $\mathcal{Y}=\{1,\; \ldots,\; K \}$ with $K\geq 3$, based upon observing a r.v. $X$, taking its values in $\mathbb{R}^q$ with $q\geq 1$ say, by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-24 Stephan Clémençon , Robin Vogel

One-class classifiers are trained with target class only samples. Intuitively, their conservative modelling of the class description may benefit classical classification tasks where classes are difficult to separate due to overlapping and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Riccardo La Grassa , Ignazio Gallo , Alessandro Calefati , Dimitri Ognibene

Both neural networks and decision trees are popular machine learning methods and are widely used to solve problems from diverse domains. These two classifiers are commonly used base classifiers in an ensemble framework. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Rakesh Katuwal , P. N. Suganthan

One-class Classification (OCC) is an area of machine learning which addresses prediction based on unbalanced datasets. Basically, OCC algorithms achieve training by means of a single class sample, with potentially some additional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-27 Sarah Itani , Fabian Lecron , Philippe Fortemps

In this paper, we propose a new mathematical optimization model for multiclass classification based on arrangements of hyperplanes. Our approach preserves the core support vector machine (SVM) paradigm of maximizing class separation while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Víctor Blanco , Harshit Kothari , James Luedtke

The number of possible methods of generalizing binary classification to multi-class classification increases exponentially with the number of class labels. Often, the best method of doing so will be highly problem dependent. Here we present…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-20 Peter Mills