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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Applying Divide and Conquer to Large Scale Pattern Recognition Tasks
verfasst von : Jürgen Fritsch, Michael Finke
Erschienen in: Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Rather than presenting a specific trick, this paper aims at providing a methodology for large scale, real-world classification tasks involving thousands of classes and millions of training patterns. Such problems arise in speech recognition, handwriting recognition and speaker or writer identification, just to name a few. Given the typically very large number of classes to be distinguished, many approaches focus on parametric methods to independently estimate class conditional likelihoods. In contrast, we demonstrate how the principles of modularity and hierarchy can be applied to directly estimate posterior class probabilities in a connectionist framework. Apart from offering better discrimination capability, we argue that a hierarchical classification scheme is crucial in tackling the above mentioned problems. Furthermore, we discuss training issues that have to be addressed when an almost infinite amount of training data is available.