Randomized Spline Trees for Functional Data Classification: Theory and Application to Environmental Time Series

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Auteurs principaux: Riccio, Donato, Maturo, Fabrizio, Romano, Elvira
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author Riccio, Donato
Maturo, Fabrizio
Romano, Elvira
author_facet Riccio, Donato
Maturo, Fabrizio
Romano, Elvira
contents Functional data analysis (FDA) and ensemble learning can be powerful tools for analyzing complex environmental time series. Recent literature has highlighted the key role of diversity in enhancing accuracy and reducing variance in ensemble methods.This paper introduces Randomized Spline Trees (RST), a novel algorithm that bridges these two approaches by incorporating randomized functional representations into the Random Forest framework. RST generates diverse functional representations of input data using randomized B-spline parameters, creating an ensemble of decision trees trained on these varied representations. We provide a theoretical analysis of how this functional diversity contributes to reducing generalization error and present empirical evaluations on six environmental time series classification tasks from the UCR Time Series Archive. Results show that RST variants outperform standard Random Forests and Gradient Boosting on most datasets, improving classification accuracy by up to 14\%. The success of RST demonstrates the potential of adaptive functional representations in capturing complex temporal patterns in environmental data. This work contributes to the growing field of machine learning techniques focused on functional data and opens new avenues for research in environmental time series analysis.
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spellingShingle Randomized Spline Trees for Functional Data Classification: Theory and Application to Environmental Time Series
Riccio, Donato
Maturo, Fabrizio
Romano, Elvira
Machine Learning
Methodology
62M10, 68T05, 65D07, 68T10
I.5.1; I.5.2; G.3; I.2.6
Functional data analysis (FDA) and ensemble learning can be powerful tools for analyzing complex environmental time series. Recent literature has highlighted the key role of diversity in enhancing accuracy and reducing variance in ensemble methods.This paper introduces Randomized Spline Trees (RST), a novel algorithm that bridges these two approaches by incorporating randomized functional representations into the Random Forest framework. RST generates diverse functional representations of input data using randomized B-spline parameters, creating an ensemble of decision trees trained on these varied representations. We provide a theoretical analysis of how this functional diversity contributes to reducing generalization error and present empirical evaluations on six environmental time series classification tasks from the UCR Time Series Archive. Results show that RST variants outperform standard Random Forests and Gradient Boosting on most datasets, improving classification accuracy by up to 14\%. The success of RST demonstrates the potential of adaptive functional representations in capturing complex temporal patterns in environmental data. This work contributes to the growing field of machine learning techniques focused on functional data and opens new avenues for research in environmental time series analysis.
title Randomized Spline Trees for Functional Data Classification: Theory and Application to Environmental Time Series
topic Machine Learning
Methodology
62M10, 68T05, 65D07, 68T10
I.5.1; I.5.2; G.3; I.2.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07879