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Breaking Ties of Plurality Voting in Ensembles of Distributed Neural Network Classifiers Using Soft Max Accumulations

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An ensemble of distributed neural network classifiers is composed when several different individual neural networks are trained based on their local training data. These classifiers can provide either a single class label prediction, or the normalized via the soft max real value class-outputs that represent posterior probabilities which give the confidence levels. To form the ensemble decision the individual classifier decisions can be combined via the well known majority (or plurality) voting that sums the votes for each class and selects the class that receives most of the votes. While the majority voting is the most popular combination rule many ties in votes can occur, especially in multi-class problems. Ties are usually broken either randomly where the unknown instance is assigned randomly to one of the tied classes or using the class proportions where the tied class with the largest proportion wins. We present a tie breaking strategy that uses soft max confidence accumulations. Every class accumulates a vote and a confidence for this vote. If a tie occurs then the tied class with the maximum confidence sum wins. The proposed tie breaking in the voting process performs very well in all cases of different data distributions on various benchmark datasets.
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hal-01391289 , version 1 (03-11-2016)

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Yiannis Kokkinos, Konstantinos G. Margaritis. Breaking Ties of Plurality Voting in Ensembles of Distributed Neural Network Classifiers Using Soft Max Accumulations. 10th IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), Sep 2014, Rhodes, Greece. pp.20-28, ⟨10.1007/978-3-662-44654-6_2⟩. ⟨hal-01391289⟩
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