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Concept drift is a major issue that greatly affects the accuracy and reliability of many real-world applications of machine learning. We argue that to tackle concept drift it is important to develop the capacity to describe and analyze it.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Geoffrey I. Webb , Loong Kuan Lee , François Petitjean , Bart Goethals

Concept drift refers to a change in the data distribution affecting the data stream of future samples. Consequently, learning models operating on the data stream might become obsolete, and need costly and difficult adjustments such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 André Artelt , Kleanthis Malialis , Christos Panayiotou , Marios Polycarpou , Barbara Hammer

Concept drift detection has attracted considerable attention due to its importance in many real-world applications such as health monitoring and fault diagnosis. Conventionally, most advanced approaches will be of poor performance when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Songqiao Hu , Zeyi Liu , Xiao He

Most predictive models assume that training and test data are generated from a stationary process. However, this assumption does not hold true in practice. In this paper, we consider the scenario of a gradual concept drift due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Subhro Das , Prasanth Lade , Soundar Srinivasan

When monitoring machine learning systems, two-sample tests of homogeneity form the foundation upon which existing approaches to drift detection build. They are used to test for evidence that the distribution underlying recent deployment…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-03 Oliver Cobb , Arnaud Van Looveren

When learning from streaming data, a change in the data distribution, also known as concept drift, can render a previously-learned model inaccurate and require training a new model. We present an adaptive learning algorithm that extends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ashraf Tahmasbi , Ellango Jothimurugesan , Srikanta Tirthapura , Phillip B. Gibbons

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at single-turn tasks such as instruction following and summarization, yet real-world deployments require sustained multi-turn interactions where user goals and conversational context persist and evolve. A…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Vardhan Dongre , Ryan A. Rossi , Viet Dac Lai , David Seunghyun Yoon , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Trung Bui

Machine Learning (ML) models have gained popularity in medical imaging analysis given their expert level performance in many medical domains. To enhance the trustworthiness, acceptance, and regulatory compliance of medical imaging models…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Mischa Dombrowski , Andrea Prenner , Bernhard Kainz

Concept drift -- the change of the distribution over time -- poses significant challenges for learning systems and is of central interest for monitoring. Understanding drift is thus paramount, and drift localization -- determining which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Fabian Hinder , Valerie Vaquet , Johannes Brinkrolf , Barbara Hammer

Machine learning (ML) represents an efficient and popular approach for network traffic classification. However, network traffic classification is a challenging domain, and trained models may degrade soon after deployment due to the obsolete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Dominik Soukup , Richard Plný , Daniel Vašata , Tomáš Čejka

Data distributions in streaming environments are usually not stationary. In order to maintain a high predictive quality at all times, online learning models need to adapt to distributional changes, which are known as concept drift. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Johannes Haug , Gjergji Kasneci

The notion of drift refers to the phenomenon that the distribution, which is underlying the observed data, changes over time. Albeit many attempts were made to deal with drift, formal notions of drift are application-dependent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Fabian Hinder , André Artelt , Barbara Hammer

In machine learning, concept drift is an evolution of information that invalidates the current data model. It happens when the statistical properties of the input data change over time in unforeseen ways. Concept drift detection is crucial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Honorius Galmeanu , Razvan Andonie

Camera images are ubiquitous in machine learning research. They also play a central role in the delivery of important services spanning medicine and environmental surveying. However, the application of machine learning models in these…

Common statistical prediction models often require and assume stationarity in the data. However, in many practical applications, changes in the relationship of the response and predictor variables are regularly observed over time, resulting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-05-05 Heng Wang , Zubin Abraham

With today's abundant streams of data, the only constant we can rely on is change. For stream classification algorithms, it is necessary to adapt to concept drift. This can be achieved by monitoring the model error, and triggering counter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Lukas Fleckenstein , Sebastian Kauschke , Johannes Fürnkranz

A key aspect of automating predictive machine learning entails the capability of properly triggering the update of the trained model. To this aim, suitable automatic solutions to self-assess the prediction quality and the data distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Tania Cerquitelli , Stefano Proto , Francesco Ventura , Daniele Apiletti , Elena Baralis

Missing values, widely called as \textit{sparsity} in literature, is a common characteristic of many real-world datasets. Many imputation methods have been proposed to address this problem of data incompleteness or sparsity. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Vishwas Choudhary , Binay Gupta , Anirban Chatterjee , Subhadip Paul , Kunal Banerjee , Vijay Agneeswaran

In applying deep learning for malware classification, it is crucial to account for the prevalence of malware evolution, which can cause trained classifiers to fail on drifted malware. Existing solutions to address concept drift use active…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Adrian Shuai Li , Arun Iyengar , Ashish Kundu , Elisa Bertino

Operational networks commonly rely on machine learning models for many tasks, including detecting anomalies, inferring application performance, and forecasting demand. Yet, model accuracy can degrade due to concept drift, whereby the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Shinan Liu , Francesco Bronzino , Paul Schmitt , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Nick Feamster , Hector Garcia Crespo , Timothy Coyle , Brian Ward