Comparative Analysis of Drift Detection Based Adaptive Ensemble Model with Different Drift Detection Techniques

Stream data mining is a popular research area these days. The concept drift detection and drift handling are the biggest challenges of stream data mining. Several drift detection algorithms have been developed which can accurately detect various drifts but have the problem of false-positive drift detection. The false-positive drift detection leads to the performance degradation of the classifier because of unnecessary training in between analyses. Classifier ensemble has shown its efficiency for drift detection, drift handling, and classification. But the ensemble classifiers could not detect the exact position of drift occurrence, so it has to update itself at some fixed interval, which leads to an unnecessary computational burden on the system. Combining the drift detection algorithm with an ensemble classifier can improve the performance and also solve the problems of false-positive drift detection and unnecessary updating of the ensemble classifier. In this paper, a model is proposed that creates a weighted adaptive ensemble classifier by updating it only when a drift detection signal is given by the used drift detection method. The proposed model is evaluated on text-based stream data for sentiment analysis and opinion mining with multiple drift detection algorithms and with multiple classification algorithms as base classifiers for the ensemble. A comparative analysis has been done, and the results have shown the efficiency of the proposed models.