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    Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms

    Machine learning algorithms often contain many hyperparameters whose values affect the predictive performance of the induced models in intricate ways. Due to the high number of possibilities for these hyperpar...

    Rafael Gomes Mantovani, Tomáš Horváth in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2024)

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    A systematic literature review on AutoML for multi-target learning tasks

    Automated machine learning (AutoML) aims to automate machine learning (ML) tasks, eliminating human intervention from the learning process as much as possible. However, most studies on AutoML are related to un...

    Aline Marques Del Valle, Rafael Gomes Mantovani in Artificial Intelligence Review (2023)

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    Multi-label classification via closed frequent labelsets and label taxonomies

    Multi-label classification (MLC) is a very explored field in recent years. The most common approaches that deal with MLC problems are classified into two groups: (i) problem transformation which aims to adapt ...

    Mauri Ferrandin, Ricardo Cerri in Soft Computing (2023)

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    Constructive Machine Learning and Hierarchical Multi-label Classification for Molecules Design

    Constructive Machine Learning (CML) is a research field that uses algorithms to generate new instances, similar but not identical to existing ones. It has been widely used to assist the discovery of new drug-l...

    Rodney Renato de Souza Silva, Ricardo Cerri in Intelligent Systems (2023)

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    Community Detection for Multi-label Classification

    Exploring label correlations is one of the main challenges in multi-label classification. The literature shows that prediction performances can be improved when classifiers learn these correlations. On the oth...

    Elaine Cecília Gatto, Alan Demétrius Baria Valejo, Mauri Ferrandin in Intelligent Systems (2023)

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    AutoMMLC: An Automated and Multi-objective Method for Multi-label Classification

    Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) has achieved high popularity in recent years. However, most of these studies have investigated alternatives to single-label classification problems, presenting a need for mo...

    Aline Marques Del Valle, Rafael Gomes Mantovani, Ricardo Cerri in Intelligent Systems (2023)

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    Investigating deep feedforward neural networks for classification of transposon-derived piRNAs

    PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAS) form an important class of non-coding RNAs that play a key role in gene expression regulation and genome integrity by silencing transposable elements. However, despite the import...

    Alisson Hayasi da Costa, Renato Augusto Corrêa dos Santos in Complex & Intelligent Systems (2022)

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    Feature Selection for Hierarchical Multi-label Classification

    In this work we study how conventional feature selection methods can be applied to Hierarchical Multi-label Classification Problems. In Hierarchical Multi-label Classification, instances can belong to two or m...

    Luan V. M. da Silva, Ricardo Cerri in Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XIX (2021)

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    Predictive Bi-clustering Trees for Hierarchical Multi-label Classification

    In the recent literature on multi-label classification, a lot of attention is given to methods that exploit label dependencies. Most of these methods assume that the dependencies are static over the entire ins...

    Bruna Z. Santos, Felipe K. Nakano in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery i… (2021)

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    Active learning for hierarchical multi-label classification

    Due to technological advances, a massive amount of data is produced daily, presenting challenges for application areas where data needs to be labelled by a domain specialist or by expensive procedures, in orde...

    Felipe Kenji Nakano, Ricardo Cerri, Celine Vens in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2020)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Intelligent Systems

    9th Brazilian Conference, BRACIS 2020, Rio Grande, Brazil, October 20–23, 2020, Proceedings, Part II

    Ricardo Cerri, Dr. Ronaldo C. Prati in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2020)

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    Book and Conference Proceedings

    Intelligent Systems

    9th Brazilian Conference, BRACIS 2020, Rio Grande, Brazil, October 20–23, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

    Ricardo Cerri, Dr. Ronaldo C. Prati in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2020)

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    Multi-Output Tree Chaining: An Interpretative Modelling and Lightweight Multi-Target Approach

    Multi-target regression (MTR) regards predictive problems with multiple numerical targets. To solve this, machine learning techniques can model solutions treating each target as a separated problem based only ...

    Saulo Martiello Mastelini in Journal of Signal Processing Systems (2019)

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    Hierarchical Classification of Transposable Elements with a Weighted Genetic Algorithm

    Most of the related works in Machine Learning (ML) are concerned ...

    Gean Trindade Pereira, Paulo H. R. Gabriel in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (2019)

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    Reduction strategies for hierarchical multi-label classification in protein function prediction

    Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification is a classification task where the classes to be predicted are hierarchically organized. Each instance can be assigned to classes belonging to more than one path in the ...

    Ricardo Cerri, Rodrigo C. Barros, André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho in BMC Bioinformatics (2016)

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    Probabilistic Clustering for Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification of Protein Functions

    Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification is a complex classification problem where the classes are hierarchically structured. This task is very common in protein function prediction, where each protein can have...

    Rodrigo C. Barros, Ricardo Cerri in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery i… (2013)

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    Hierarchical Multilabel Protein Function Prediction Using Local Neural Networks

    Protein function predictions are usually treated as classification problems where each function is regarded as a class label. However, different from conventional classification problems, they have some specif...

    Ricardo Cerri, André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho in Advances in Bioinformatics and Computation… (2011)

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    Comparing Methods for Multilabel Classification of Proteins Using Machine Learning Techniques

    Multilabel classification is an important problem in bioinformatics and Machine Learning. In a conventional classification problem, examples belong to just one among many classes. When an example can simultane...

    Ricardo Cerri, Renato R. O. da Silva in Advances in Bioinformatics and Computation… (2009)