Predicting Secondary School Students' Performance Utilizing a Semi-supervised Learning Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 448-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis E. Livieris ◽  
Konstantina Drakopoulou ◽  
Vassilis T. Tampakas ◽  
Tassos A. Mikropoulos ◽  
Panagiotis Pintelas
Keyword(s):  
Supervised Learning ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Semisupervised Learning ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
School Students ◽  
Supervised Learning Algorithms ◽  
And Performance

Educational data mining constitutes a recent research field which gained popularity over the last decade because of its ability to monitor students' academic performance and predict future progression. Numerous machine learning techniques and especially supervised learning algorithms have been applied to develop accurate models to predict student's characteristics which induce their behavior and performance. In this work, we examine and evaluate the effectiveness of two wrapper methods for semisupervised learning algorithms for predicting the students' performance in the final examinations. Our preliminary numerical experiments indicate that the advantage of semisupervised methods is that the classification accuracy can be significantly improved by utilizing a few labeled and many unlabeled data for developing reliable prediction models.

scholarly journals Automatic classification of mice vocalizations using Machine Learning techniques and Convolutional Neural Networks

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0244636
Author(s):  
Marika Premoli ◽  
Daniele Baggi ◽  
Marco Bianchetti ◽  
Alessandro Gnutti ◽  
Marco Bondaschi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supervised Learning ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Automatic Classification ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Multilayer Perceptrons ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Supervised Learning Algorithms ◽  
Audio Files

Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) analysis is a well-recognized tool to investigate animal communication. It can be used for behavioral phenotyping of murine models of different disorders. The USVs are usually recorded with a microphone sensitive to ultrasound frequencies and they are analyzed by specific software. Different calls typologies exist, and each ultrasonic call can be manually classified, but the qualitative analysis is highly time-consuming. Considering this framework, in this work we proposed and evaluated a set of supervised learning methods for automatic USVs classification. This could represent a sustainable procedure to deeply analyze the ultrasonic communication, other than a standardized analysis. We used manually built datasets obtained by segmenting the USVs audio tracks analyzed with the Avisoft software, and then by labelling each of them into 10 representative classes. For the automatic classification task, we designed a Convolutional Neural Network that was trained receiving as input the spectrogram images associated to the segmented audio files. In addition, we also tested some other supervised learning algorithms, such as Support Vector Machine, Random Forest and Multilayer Perceptrons, exploiting informative numerical features extracted from the spectrograms. The performance showed how considering the whole time/frequency information of the spectrogram leads to significantly higher performance than considering a subset of numerical features. In the authors’ opinion, the experimental results may represent a valuable benchmark for future work in this research field.

scholarly journals On Ensemble SSL Algorithms for Credit Scoring Problem

Informatics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Livieris ◽  
Niki Kiriakidou ◽  
Andreas Kanavos ◽  
Vassilis Tampakas ◽  
Panagiotis Pintelas
Keyword(s):  
Supervised Learning ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Credit Scoring ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Unlabeled Data ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Customer Group ◽  
Ensemble Techniques ◽  
Supervised Learning Algorithms ◽  
Robust Prediction

Credit scoring is generally recognized as one of the most significant operational research techniques used in banking and finance, aiming to identify whether a credit consumer belongs to either a legitimate or a suspicious customer group. With the vigorous development of the Internet and the widespread adoption of electronic records, banks and financial institutions have accumulated large repositories of labeled and mostly unlabeled data. Semi-supervised learning constitutes an appropriate machine- learning methodology for extracting useful knowledge from both labeled and unlabeled data. In this work, we evaluate the performance of two ensemble semi-supervised learning algorithms for the credit scoring problem. Our numerical experiments indicate that the proposed algorithms outperform their component semi-supervised learning algorithms, illustrating that reliable and robust prediction models could be developed by the adaptation of ensemble techniques in the semi-supervised learning framework.

Supervised learning algorithms in the classification of plant populations with different degrees of kinship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Skowronski ◽  
Paula Martin de Moraes ◽  
Mario Luiz Teixeira de Moraes ◽  
Wesley Nunes Gonçalves ◽  
Michel Constantino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supervised Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Plant Populations ◽  
Supervised Learning Algorithms

An Opcode-Based Malware Detection Model Using Supervised Learning Algorithms

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Om Prakash Samantray ◽  
Satya Narayan Tripathy
Keyword(s):  
Supervised Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Malware Detection ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Tree Classifier ◽  
Supervised Learning Algorithms

There are several malware detection techniques available that are based on a signature-based approach. This approach can detect known malware very effectively but sometimes may fail to detect unknown or zero-day attacks. In this article, the authors have proposed a malware detection model that uses operation codes of malicious and benign executables as the feature. The proposed model uses opcode extract and count (OPEC) algorithm to prepare the opcode feature vector for the experiment. Most relevant features are selected using extra tree classifier feature selection technique and then passed through several supervised learning algorithms like support vector machine, naive bayes, decision tree, random forest, logistic regression, and k-nearest neighbour to build classification models for malware detection. The proposed model has achieved a detection accuracy of 98.7%, which makes this model better than many of the similar works discussed in the literature.

scholarly journals An Auto-Adjustable Semi-Supervised Self-Training Algorithm

Algorithms ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Livieris ◽  
Andreas Kanavos ◽  
Vassilis Tampakas ◽  
Panagiotis Pintelas
Keyword(s):  
Supervised Learning ◽  
Predictive Models ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Classification Methods ◽  
Training Algorithm ◽  
Traditional Classification ◽  
Supervised Learning Algorithms ◽  
Significant Research

Semi-supervised learning algorithms have become a topic of significant research as an alternative to traditional classification methods which exhibit remarkable performance over labeled data but lack the ability to be applied on large amounts of unlabeled data. In this work, we propose a new semi-supervised learning algorithm that dynamically selects the most promising learner for a classification problem from a pool of classifiers based on a self-training philosophy. Our experimental results illustrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms its component semi-supervised learning algorithms in terms of accuracy, leading to more efficient, stable and robust predictive models.

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