A k nearest neighbours classifiers ensemble based on extended neighbourhood rule and features subsets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.15111v1
• Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 13:57:32 GMT
• Title: A k nearest neighbours classifiers ensemble based on extended neighbourhood rule and features subsets
• Authors: Amjad Ali, Muhammad Hamraz, Naz Gul, Dost Muhammad Khan, Zardad Khan, Saeed Aldahmani
• Abstract summary: kNN based ensemble methods minimise the effect of outliers by identifying a set of data points in the given feature space that are nearest to an unseen observation. This paper proposes a k nearest neighbour ensemble where the neighbours are determined in k steps.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: kNN based ensemble methods minimise the effect of outliers by identifying a set of data points in the given feature space that are nearest to an unseen observation in order to predict its response by using majority voting. The ordinary ensembles based on kNN find out the k nearest observations in a region (bounded by a sphere) based on a predefined value of k. This scenario, however, might not work in situations when the test observation follows the pattern of the closest data points with the same class that lie on a certain path not contained in the given sphere. This paper proposes a k nearest neighbour ensemble where the neighbours are determined in k steps. Starting from the first nearest observation of the test point, the algorithm identifies a single observation that is closest to the observation at the previous step. At each base learner in the ensemble, this search is extended to k steps on a random bootstrap sample with a random subset of features selected from the feature space. The final predicted class of the test point is determined by using a majority vote in the predicted classes given by all base models. This new ensemble method is applied on 17 benchmark datasets and compared with other classical methods, including kNN based models, in terms of classification accuracy, kappa and Brier score as performance metrics. Boxplots are also utilised to illustrate the difference in the results given by the proposed and other state-of-the-art methods. The proposed method outperformed the rest of the classical methods in the majority of cases. The paper gives a detailed simulation study for further assessment.

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