A unified framework of binary classifiers ensemble for multi-class classification

Abstract

We present a novel methods for multi-class classification by ensemble of binary classifiers for multi-class classification. The proposed method is characterized by a minimization problem of weighted divergences, and includes a lot of conventional methods as special cases. We discuss relationship between the proposed method and conventional methods and statistical properties of the proposed method. A small experiment shows that the proposed method can effectively incorporate information of multiple binary classifiers into multi-class classifier. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.