Learning to classify with missing and corrupted features

O Dekel, O Shamir - Proceedings of the 25th international conference on …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning, 2008dl.acm.org
After a classifier is trained using a machine learning algorithm and put to use in a real world
system, it often faces noise which did not appear in the training data. Particularly, some
subset of features may be missing or may become corrupted. We present two novel machine
learning techniques that are robust to this type of classification-time noise. First, we solve an
approximation to the learning problem using linear programming. We analyze the tightness
of our approximation and prove statistical risk bounds for this approach. Second, we define …
After a classifier is trained using a machine learning algorithm and put to use in a real world system, it often faces noise which did not appear in the training data. Particularly, some subset of features may be missing or may become corrupted. We present two novel machine learning techniques that are robust to this type of classification-time noise. First, we solve an approximation to the learning problem using linear programming. We analyze the tightness of our approximation and prove statistical risk bounds for this approach. Second, we define the online-learning variant of our problem, address this variant using a modified Perceptron, and obtain a statistical learning algorithm using an online-to-batch technique. We conclude with a set of experiments that demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.
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