Liu, Ying, Ye, TengQi, Liu, Guoqi, Gurrin, Cathal ORCID: 0000-0003-2903-3968 and Zhang, Bin (2014) Demographic attributes prediction using extreme learning machine. In: Sun, Fuchen, Toh, Kar-Ann, Romay, Manuel Grana and Mao, Kezhi, (eds.) Extreme Learning Machines 2013: Algorithms and Applications. Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization (ALO), 16 . Springer, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN 978-3-319-04740-9
Abstract
Demographic attributes prediction is fundamental and important in many
applications in real world, such as: recommendation, personalized search and behavior targeting. Although a variety of subjects are involved with demographic attributes
prediction, e.g. there are requirements to recognize and predict demography from
psychology, but the traditional approach is dynamic modeling on specified field and
distinctive datasets. However, dynamic modeling takes researchers a lot of time and
energy, even if it is done, no one has an idea how good or how bad it is. To tackle
the problems mentioned above, a framework is proposed in this chapter to predict
using classifiers as core part, which consists of three main components: data processing, predicting using classifiers and prediction adjustments. The component of data
processing performs to clean and format data. The first step is extracting relatively
independent data from complicated original dataset. In the next step, the extracted
data goes through different paths based on their types. And at the last step, all the
data will be transformed into a demographic attributes matrix. To fulfill prediction,
the demographic attributes matrix is taken as the input of classifiers, and the testing
dataset comes from the same matrix as well. Classifiers in the experiments includes
conventional state-of-the-art ones and Extreme Learning Machine, a new outstanding
classifier. From the results of experiments based on two unique datasets, it is concluded ELM outperforms others. In the stage of prediction adjustments, two kinds
of adjustments strategies are proposed corresponding to single target attributes and
multiple target attributes separately, where single target attributes adjustments strategies include: adjusting the parameters of classifiers, adjusting the number of classes
of target attributes and adjusting the public attributes. And multiple target attributes
adjustment utilizes the outputs of first prediction as the inputs of second prediction to
improve the accuracy of the first prediction. The framework proposed in this chapter
consumes less time compared with traditional dynamic modeling methods, and there
is no need to fully study the knowledge in various subjects for researchers using the
framework because of the regular patterns. In addition, adjustment strategies have
no restriction on the datasets; hence it will be useful universally. However, in some
cases, dynamic modeling has the advantage of precision, resulting in better accuracy, but the results from the framework proposed in the chapter could provide as a
comparison. In this work, a universal demographic attributes prediction framework is
proposed to work on a variety of dataset with Extreme Learning Machine (ELM). The
framework consists of three main components: First, processing raw data and extracting attribute features depending on different data types; Second, predicting desired
attributes by classification; Third, improving the accuracy of classifiers through various adjustment strategies. Two experiments of different data types on real world
prediction problems are conducted to demonstrate our framework can achieve better
performance than other traditional state-of-the-art prediction methods with respect
to accuracy. abstract environment.
Metadata
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing |
Publisher: | Springer |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-319-04741-6_11 |
Copyright Information: | © 2014 Springer |
Funders: | National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grand No.61073062, No. 61100027, No.61202085, National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grand No. 20120042120010, Liaoning Province Doctor Startup Fund under Grand No.20111001, No.20121002, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grand No.N110417001No.N110417004 |
ID Code: | 25549 |
Deposited On: | 23 Feb 2021 15:28 by Michael Scriney . Last Modified 03 Feb 2023 14:54 |
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