NoiseFramework

This framework implements two Big Data preprocessing approaches to remove noisy examples: an homogeneous ensemble (HME-BD) and an heterogeneous ensemble (HTE-BD) filter, with special emphasis in their scalability and performance traits. A simple filtering approach based on similarities between instances (ENN-BD) is also implemented.

This software has been proved with four large real-world datasets such as:

• SUSY dataset: 5M instances and 18 attributes. https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/SUSY
• HIGGS dataset: 11M instances and 28 attributes. https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/HIGGS
• Epsilon dataset: 400K instances and 2K attributes. http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvmtools/datasets/binary.html#epsilon
• A dataset selected for the GECCO-2014 in Vancouver, July 13th, 2014 competition, which comes from the Protein Structure Prediction field (http://cruncher.ncl.ac.uk/bdcomp/). We have created a a reduced version of this dataset with 1M instances, 631 attributes and 2 classes.

Brief benchmark results:

• HME-BD has shown to be the best noise filter algorithm, achieving the best accuracy.
• HME-BD is also the most efficient in terms of computing time.
• HTE-BD can outperform HME-BD for some datasets under low levels of noise.

Example (HME-BD)

import org.apache.spark.mllib.feature._

val nTrees = 100
val maxDepth = 10
val partitions = 4

// Data must be cached in order to improve the performance

val hme_bd_model = new HME_BD(trainingData, // RDD[LabeledPoint]
                              nTrees, // size of the Random Forests
                              partitions, // number of partitions
                              maxDepth, // depth of the Random Forests
                              seed) // seed for the Random Forests

val hme_bd = hme_bd_model.runFilter()

Example (HTE-BD)

import org.apache.spark.mllib.feature._

val nTrees = 100
val maxDepth = 10
val partitions = 4
val voting = 0 // 0 = majority, 1 = consensus

// Data must be cached in order to improve the performance

val hte_bd_model = new HTE_BD(trainingData, // RDD[LabeledPoint]
                              nTrees, // size of the Random Forests
                              partitions, // number of partitions
                              vote, // voting strategy
                              k, // number of neighbors
                              maxDepth, // depth of the Random Forests
                              seed) // seed for the Random Forests

val hte_bd = hte_bd_model.runFilter()

Example (ENN-BD)

import org.apache.spark.mllib.feature._

// Data must be cached in order to improve the performance

val enn_bd_model = new ENN_BD(trainingData, // RDD[LabeledPoint]
                              k) // number of neighbors

val enn_bd = enn_bd_model.runFilter()