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Selecting Multiple Biomarker Subsets with Similarly Effective Binary Classification Performances
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Published on: October 11, 2018

Reduction from cost-sensitive ordinal ranking to weighted binary classification.

Hsuan-Tien Lin1, Ling Li

  • 1Department of Computer Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan. htlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw

Neural Computation
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We introduce a novel framework that reduces ordinal ranking to binary classification. This approach enhances algorithm design, unifies existing methods, and improves training speed and generalization performance in ranking tasks.

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Selecting Multiple Biomarker Subsets with Similarly Effective Binary Classification Performances
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Selecting Multiple Biomarker Subsets with Similarly Effective Binary Classification Performances

Published on: October 11, 2018

Area of Science:

  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Science

Background:

  • Ordinal ranking problems present unique challenges in machine learning.
  • Existing methods for ordinal ranking often lack a unified theoretical foundation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a general reduction framework from ordinal ranking to binary classification.
  • To demonstrate theoretical guarantees and practical advantages of the proposed framework.

Main Methods:

  • The framework involves extracting extended examples, training a binary classifier, and constructing a ranker.
  • Theoretical analysis shows the weighted 0/1 loss of the binary classifier upper-bounds the ranker's mislabeling cost.

Main Results:

  • The framework enables the design of new ordinal ranking algorithms and derivation of generalization bounds.
  • It unifies existing algorithms like perceptron ranking and support vector ordinal regression.
  • Empirical comparisons show advantages in training speed and generalization performance.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed reduction framework offers a powerful approach to ordinal ranking.
  • It facilitates the development of more efficient and effective ranking algorithms.
  • The framework provides a unified perspective on various ordinal ranking techniques.