2019/10/02 by Abhijit Suprem, Suprem, Abhijit
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Engineering · Environmental Science · #Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research #Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting #Data Stream Mining Techniques #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Smart Grid Energy Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1910.01064
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Concept drift in learning and classification occurs when the statistical properties of either the data features or target change over time; evidence of drift has appeared in search data, medical research, malware, web data, and video. Drift adaptation has not yet been addressed in high dimensional, noisy, low-context data such as streaming text, video, or images due to the unique challenges these domains present. We present a two-fold approach to deal with concept drift in these domains: a density-based clustering approach to deal with virtual concept drift (change in statistical properties of features) and a weak-supervision step to deal with real concept drift (change in statistical properties of target). Our density-based clustering avoids problems posed by the curse of dimensionality to create an evolving 'map' of the live data space, thereby addressing virtual drift in features. Our weak-supervision step leverages high-confidence labels (oracle or heuristic labels) to generate weighted training sets to generalize and update existing deep learners to adapt to changing decision boundaries (real drift) and create new deep learners for unseen regions of the data space. Our results show that our two-fold approach performs well with >90% precision in 2018, four years after initial deployment in 2014, without any human intervention.