Combination of Multi-class Probability Support Vector Machines for Fault Diagnosis

To deal with multi-source multi-class classification problems, the method of combining multiple multi-class probability support vector machines （MPSVMs） using Bayesian theory is proposed in this paper. The MPSVMs are designed by mapping the output of standard support vector machines into a calibrated posterior probability by using a learned sigmoid function and then combining these learned binary-class probability SVMs. Two Bayes based methods for combining multiple MPSVMs are applied to improve the performance of classification. Our proposed methods are applied to fault diagnosis of a diesel engine. The experimental results show that the new methods can improve the accuracy and robustness of fault diagnosis.     

Support vector machine ensemble using rough sets theory

A support vector machine （SVM） ensemble classifier is proposed. Performance of SVM trained in an input space eonsisting of all the information from many sources is not always good. The strategy that the original input space is partitioned into several input subspaces usually works for improving the performance. Different from conventional partition methods, the partition method used in this paper, rough sets theory based attribute reduction, allows the input subspaces partially overlapped. These input subspaces can offer complementary information about hidden data patterns. In every subspace, an SVM sub-classifier is learned. With the information fusion techniques, those SVM sub-classifiers with better performance are selected and combined to construct an SVM ensemble. The proposed method is applied to decision-making of medical diagnosis. Comparison of performance between our method and several other popular ensemble methods is done. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed approach can make full use of the information contained in data and improve the decision-making performance.