Analysis of Rare Categories

by Jingrui He

Overview

In many real-world problems, rare categories (minority classes) play essential roles despite their extreme scarcity. The discovery, characterization and prediction of rare categories of rare examples may protect us from fraudulent or malicious behavior, aid scientific discovery, and even save lives.

This book focuses on rare category analysis, where the majority classes have smooth distributions, and the minority classes exhibit the compactness property. Furthermore, it focuses on the challenging cases where the support regions of the majority and minority classes overlap. The author has developed effective algorithms with theoretical guarantees and good empirical results for the related techniques, and these are explained in detail. The book is suitable for researchers in the area of artificial intelligence, in particular machine learning and data mining.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642228124
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	01/04/2012
Series:	Cognitive Technologies
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

About the Author

Dr. Jingrui He received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a researcher in the Machine Learning Group of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Her research interests include rare category analysis, active learning, semisupervised learning, transfer learning and spam filtering.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Survey and Overview.- Rare Category Detection.- Rare Category Characterization.- Unsupervised Rare Category Analysis.- Conclusion and Future Directions.