Subgroup Discovery with Proper Scoring Rules

Hao Song, Meelis Kull, Peter Flach, Georgios Kalogridis

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Abstract

Subgroup Discovery is the process of finding and describing sufficiently large subsets of a given population that have unusual distributional characteristics with regard to some target attribute. Such subgroups can be used as a statistical summary which improves on the default summary of stating the overall distribution in the population. A natural way to evaluate such summaries is to quantify the difference between predicted and empirical distribution of the target. In this paper we propose to use proper scoring rules, a well-known family of evaluation measures for assessing the goodness of probability estimators, to obtain theoretically well-founded evaluation measures for subgroup discovery. From this perspective, one subgroup is better than another if it has lower divergence of target probability estimates from the actual labels on average. We demonstrate empirically on both synthetic and real-world data that this leads to higher quality statistical summaries than the existing methods based on measures such as Weighted Relative Accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
Subtitle of host publicationEuropean Conference, ECML PKDD 2016, Riva del Garda, Italy, September 19-23, 2016, Proceedings, Part II
PublisherSpringer
Pages492-510
Number of pages19
ISBN (Electronic)9783319462271
ISBN (Print)9783319462264
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume9852
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Research Groups and Themes

  • Jean Golding
  • SPHERE

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  • SPHERE (EPSRC IRC)

    Craddock, I. J. (Principal Investigator), Coyle, D. T. (Principal Investigator), Flach, P. A. (Principal Investigator), Kaleshi, D. (Principal Investigator), Mirmehdi, M. (Principal Investigator), Piechocki, R. J. (Principal Investigator), Stark, B. H. (Principal Investigator), Ascione, R. (Co-Principal Investigator), Ashburn, A. M. (Collaborator), Burnett, M. E. (Collaborator), Damen, D. (Co-Principal Investigator), Gooberman-Hill, R. (Principal Investigator), Harwin, W. S. (Collaborator), Hilton, G. (Co-Principal Investigator), Holderbaum, W. (Collaborator), Holley, A. P. (Manager), Manchester, V. A. (Administrator), Meller, B. J. (Other ), Stack, E. (Collaborator) & Gilchrist, I. D. (Principal Investigator)

    1/10/1330/09/18

    Project: Research, Parent

  • REFrAMe

    Flach, P. A. (Principal Investigator)

    Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

    1/02/131/08/16

    Project: Research

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