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  Author(s): K. Sechidis, G. Tsoumakas, I. Vlahavas.

Title: “On the Stratification of Multi-Label Data”.

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Appeared in: Proceedings of ECML PKDD 2011, Athens, Greece, 2011.

Abstract: Stratified sampling is a sampling method that takes into account the existence of disjoint groups within a population and produces samples where the proportion of these groups is maintained. In single-label classification tasks, groups are differentiated based on the value of the target variable. In multi-label learning tasks, however, where there are multiple target variables, it is not clear how stratified sampling could/should be performed. This paper investigates stratification in the multi-label data context. It considers two stratification methods for multi-label data and empirically compares them along with random sampling on a number of datasets and based on a number of evaluation criteria. The results reveal some interesting conclusions with respect to the utility of each method for particular types of multi-label datasets.

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