COMBINING NEURAL NETWORKS VOTING CLASSIFIERS AND ERROR CORRECTING OUTPUT CODES

We show that error correcting output codes (ECOC) can further improve the eeects of error dependent adaptive resampling methods such as arc-lh. In traditional one-inn coding, the distance between two binary class labels is rather small, whereas ECOC are chosen to maximize this distance. We compare one-inn and ECOC on a multiclass data set using standard MLPs and bagging and arcing voting committees.