BPE: Behavioral Profiling Ensemble

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Auteurs principaux: Liu, Yanxin, Zhang, Yunqi
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author Liu, Yanxin
Zhang, Yunqi
author_facet Liu, Yanxin
Zhang, Yunqi
contents In the field of machine learning, ensemble learning is widely recognized as a pivotal strategy for pushing the boundaries of predictive performance. Traditional static ensemble methods typically assign weights by treating each base learner as a whole, thereby overlooking that individual models exhibit varying competence across different regions of the instance space. Dynamic Ensemble Selection (DES) was introduced to address this limitation. However, both static and dynamic approaches predominantly rely on inter-model differences as the basis for integration; this inter-model perspective neglects models' intrinsic characteristics and often requires heavy reliance on reference sets for competence estimation. We propose the Behavioral Profiling Ensemble (BPE) framework, which introduces a model-centric integration paradigm. Unlike traditional methods, BPE constructs an intrinsic behavioral profile $\mathcal{P}_k$ for each model and derives aggregation weights from the deviation between a model's response to a test instance and its established profile; in this work, we instantiate $\mathcal{P}_k$ with entropy-based summary statistics (e.g., mean and variance). Extensive experiments on 42 real-world datasets show that BPE-derived algorithms outperform state-of-the-art DES baselines, increasing predictive accuracy while reducing computational and storage overhead.
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spellingShingle BPE: Behavioral Profiling Ensemble
Liu, Yanxin
Zhang, Yunqi
Machine Learning
In the field of machine learning, ensemble learning is widely recognized as a pivotal strategy for pushing the boundaries of predictive performance. Traditional static ensemble methods typically assign weights by treating each base learner as a whole, thereby overlooking that individual models exhibit varying competence across different regions of the instance space. Dynamic Ensemble Selection (DES) was introduced to address this limitation. However, both static and dynamic approaches predominantly rely on inter-model differences as the basis for integration; this inter-model perspective neglects models' intrinsic characteristics and often requires heavy reliance on reference sets for competence estimation. We propose the Behavioral Profiling Ensemble (BPE) framework, which introduces a model-centric integration paradigm. Unlike traditional methods, BPE constructs an intrinsic behavioral profile $\mathcal{P}_k$ for each model and derives aggregation weights from the deviation between a model's response to a test instance and its established profile; in this work, we instantiate $\mathcal{P}_k$ with entropy-based summary statistics (e.g., mean and variance). Extensive experiments on 42 real-world datasets show that BPE-derived algorithms outperform state-of-the-art DES baselines, increasing predictive accuracy while reducing computational and storage overhead.
title BPE: Behavioral Profiling Ensemble
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10024