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Label Ranking Forests

Cláudio Rebelo de Sá

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E-mail address: c.f.de.sa@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

LIACS, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands

INESCTEC Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Rebelo de Sá, Cláudio, LIACS, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands.

Email: c.f.de.sa@liacs.leidenuniv.nl

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Carlos Soares

Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

INESCTEC Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Arno Knobbe

LIACS, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands

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Paulo Cortez

ALGORITMI Centre, Department of Information Systems, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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First published: 29 July 2016
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Abstract

The problem of Label Ranking is receiving increasing attention from several research communities. The algorithms that have been developed/adapted to treat rankings of a fixed set of labels as the target object, including several different types of decision trees (DT). One DT‐based algorithm, which has been very successful in other tasks but which has not been adapted for label ranking is the Random Forests (RF) algorithm. RFs are an ensemble learning method that combines different trees obtained using different randomization techniques. In this work, we propose an ensemble of decision trees for Label Ranking, based on Random Forests, which we refer to as Label Ranking Forests (LRF). Two different algorithms that learn DT for label ranking are used to obtain the trees. We then compare and discuss the results of LRF with standalone decision tree approaches. The results indicate that the method is highly competitive.