Outputs (22)

Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning (2024)
Journal Article
Farou, Z., Wang, Y., & Horváth, T. (2024). Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning. Intelligent Systems with Applications, 22, Article 200357. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iswa.2024.200357

Class imbalance learning is challenging in various domains where training datasets exhibit disproportionate samples in a specific class. Resampling methods have been used to adjust the class distribution, but they often have limitations for small dis... Read More about Cluster-based oversampling with area extraction from representative points for class imbalance learning.

Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms (2024)
Journal Article
Mantovani, R. G., Horváth, T., Rossi, A. L. D., Cerri, R., Barbon Junior, S., Vanschoren, J., & de Carvalho, A. C. P. L. F. (2024). Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 38, 1364–1416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-024-01002-5

Machine learning algorithms often contain many hyperparameters whose values affect the predictive performance of the induced models in intricate ways. Due to the high number of possibilities for these hyperparameter configurations and their complex i... Read More about Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms.

A Comparative Study of Assessment Metrics for Imbalanced Learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Farou, Z., Aharrat, M., & Horváth, T. (2023, September). A Comparative Study of Assessment Metrics for Imbalanced Learning. Presented at European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2023), Barcelona, Spain

There are several machine learning algorithms addressing class imbalance problem, requiring standardized metrics for adequete performance evaluation. This paper reviews several metrics for imbalanced learning in binary and multi-class problems. We em... Read More about A Comparative Study of Assessment Metrics for Imbalanced Learning.

NCC: Neural concept compression for multilingual document recommendation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tashu, T. M., Lenz, M., & Horváth, T. NCC: Neural concept compression for multilingual document recommendation

In this work, we propose a novel method for generating inter-lingual document representations using neural network concept compression. The presented approach is intended to improve the quality of content-based multilingual document recommendation an... Read More about NCC: Neural concept compression for multilingual document recommendation.

Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horváth, T., Mantovani, R. G., & de Carvalho, A. C. Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features

Meta-learning, a concept from the area of automated machine learning, aims at providing decision support for data scientists by recommending a suitable setting (a machine learning algorithm or its hyper-parameters) to be used for a given dataset. Suc... Read More about Hyper-parameter initialization of classification algorithms using dynamic time warping: A perspective on PCA meta-features.

Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications (2022)
Journal Article
Horváth, D., Erdős, G., Istenes, Z., Horváth, T., & Földi, S. (2023). Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 39(2), 1225-1243. https://doi.org/10.1109/tro.2022.3207619

Robots working in unstructured environments must be capable of sensing and interpreting their surroundings. One of the main obstacles of deep-learning-based models in the field of robotics is the lack of domain-specific labeled data for different ind... Read More about Object Detection Using Sim2Real Domain Randomization for Robotic Applications.

Dynamic noise filtering for multi-class classification of beehive audio data (2022)
Journal Article
Várkonyi, D. T., Seixas Junior, J. L., & Horváth, T. (2023). Dynamic noise filtering for multi-class classification of beehive audio data. Expert Systems with Applications, 213(Part A), Article 118850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118850

Honeybees are the most specialized insect pollinators and are critical not only for honey production but, also, for keeping the environmental balance by pollinating the flowers of a wide variety of crops.

Recording and analyzing bee sounds became... Read More about Dynamic noise filtering for multi-class classification of beehive audio data.

Tracing the Local Breeds in an Outdoor System – A Hungarian Example with Mangalica Pig Breed (2022)
Book Chapter
Alexy, M., & Horváth, T. Tracing the Local Breeds in an Outdoor System – A Hungarian Example with Mangalica Pig Breed. In Tracing the Domestic Pig. IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101615

Pig farming is largely characterized by closed, large-scale housing technology. These systems are driven by resource efficiency. In intensive technologies, humans control almost completely. However, there are pig farming systems where humans have jus... Read More about Tracing the Local Breeds in an Outdoor System – A Hungarian Example with Mangalica Pig Breed.

Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Art Using Sequential Co-Attention (2021)
Journal Article
Tashu, T. M., Hajiyeva, S., & Horvath, T. (2021). Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Art Using Sequential Co-Attention. Journal of Imaging, 7(8), Article 157. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7080157

In this study, we present a multimodal emotion recognition architecture that uses both feature-level attention (sequential co-attention) and modality attention (weighted modality fusion) to classify emotion in art. The proposed architecture helps the... Read More about Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Art Using Sequential Co-Attention.

Swarm intelligence techniques in recommender systems - A review of recent research (2019)
Journal Article
Peška, L., Tashu, T. M., & Horváth, T. (2019). Swarm intelligence techniques in recommender systems - A review of recent research. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 48, 201-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2019.04.003

One of the main current applications of Intelligent Systems are Recommender systems (RS). RS can help users to find relevant items in huge information spaces in a personalized way. Several techniques have been investigated for the development of RS.... Read More about Swarm intelligence techniques in recommender systems - A review of recent research.

New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: ADBIS 2018 Short Papers and Workshops, AI*QA, BIGPMED, CSACDB, M2U, BigDataMAPS, ISTREND, DC, Budapest, Hungary, September, 2-5, 2018, Proceedings (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2018, September). New Trends in Databases and Information Systems: ADBIS 2018 Short Papers and Workshops, AI*QA, BIGPMED, CSACDB, M2U, BigDataMAPS, ISTREND, DC, Budapest, Hungary, September, 2-5, 2018, Proceedings. Presented at 22th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2018, Budapest, Hungary

Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 22nd European Conference, ADBIS 2018, Budapest, Hungary, September 2–5, 2018, Proceedings (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2018, September). Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 22nd European Conference, ADBIS 2018, Budapest, Hungary, September 2–5, 2018, Proceedings. Presented at 22nd European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2018, Budapest, Hungary

Evolutionary computing in recommender systems: a review of recent research (2016)
Journal Article
Horváth, T., & de Carvalho, A. C. P. L. F. (2017). Evolutionary computing in recommender systems: a review of recent research. Natural Computing, 16(3), 441-462. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-016-9540-y

One of the main current applications of intelligent systems is recommender systems (RS). RS can help users to find relevant items in huge information spaces in a personalized way. Several techniques have been investigated for the development of RS. O... Read More about Evolutionary computing in recommender systems: a review of recent research.

Ranking Formal Concepts by Utilizing Matrix Factorization (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pisková, L., Horvath, T., & Krajči, S. Ranking Formal Concepts by Utilizing Matrix Factorization. Presented at 12th International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Formal Concept Analysis often produce huge number of formal concepts even for small input data. Such a large amount of formal concepts, which is intractable to analyze for humans, calls for a kind of
a ranking of formal concepts according to their i... Read More about Ranking Formal Concepts by Utilizing Matrix Factorization.

Buried pipe localization using an iterative geometric clustering on GPR data (2013)
Journal Article
Janning, R., Busche, A., Horváth, T., & Schmidt-Thieme, L. (2014). Buried pipe localization using an iterative geometric clustering on GPR data. Artificial Intelligence Review, 42(3), 403-425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-013-9410-2

Ground penetrating radar is a non-destructive method to scan the shallow subsurface for detecting buried objects like pipes, cables, ducts and sewers. Such buried objects cause hyperbola shaped reflections in the radargram images achieved by GPR. Ori... Read More about Buried pipe localization using an iterative geometric clustering on GPR data.

Factorization Techniques for Predicting Student Performance (2012)
Book Chapter
Thai-Nghe, N., Drumond, L., Horváth, T., Krohn-Grimberghe, A., Nanopoulos, A., & Schmidt-Thieme, L. (2012). Factorization Techniques for Predicting Student Performance. In O. C. Santos, & J. G. Boticario (Eds.), Educational Recommender Systems and Technologies: Practices and Challenges (129-153). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-489-5.ch006

Recommender systems are widely used in many areas, especially in e-commerce. Recently, they are also applied in e-learning for recommending learning objects (e.g. papers) to students. This chapter introduces state-of-the-art recommender system techni... Read More about Factorization Techniques for Predicting Student Performance.

GRAMOFON: General model-selection framework based on networks (2011)
Journal Article
Buza, K., Nanopoulos, A., Horváth, T., & Schmidt-Thieme, L. (2012). GRAMOFON: General model-selection framework based on networks. Neurocomputing, 75(1), 163-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2011.02.026

Ensembles constitute one of the most prominent class of hybrid prediction models. One basically assumes that different models compensate each other's errors if one combines them in an appropriate way. Often, a large number of various prediction model... Read More about GRAMOFON: General model-selection framework based on networks.

User Preference Web Search -- Experiments with a System Connecting Web and User (2009)
Journal Article
Gurský, P., Horvath, T., Jirásek, J., Krajči, S., Novotny, R., Pribolová, J., Vaneková, V., & Vojtáš, P. (2009). User Preference Web Search -- Experiments with a System Connecting Web and User. Computing and Informatics, 28(4), 1001-1033

We present models, methods, implementations and experiments with a system enabling personalized web search for many users with different preferences. The system consists of a web information extraction part, a text search engine, a middleware support... Read More about User Preference Web Search -- Experiments with a System Connecting Web and User.

A Model of User Preference Learning for Content-Based Recommender Systems (2009)
Journal Article
Horvath, T. (2009). A Model of User Preference Learning for Content-Based Recommender Systems. Computing and Informatics, 28(4), 1001-1029

This paper focuses to a formal model of user preference learning for
content-based recommender systems. First, some fundamental and special requirements to user preference learning are identified and proposed. Three learning tasks are introduced as... Read More about A Model of User Preference Learning for Content-Based Recommender Systems.

Knowledge Processing for Web Search – An Integrated Model and Experiments (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gurský, P., Horvath, T., Jirásek, J., Novotny, R., Pribolová, J., Vaneková, V., & Vojtáš, P. Knowledge Processing for Web Search – An Integrated Model and Experiments. Presented at Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing IDC, Craiova, Romania

We propose a model of a middleware system enabling personalized web
search for users with different preferences. We integrate both inductive and deductive tasks to find user preferences and consequently best objects. The model is based on modeling p... Read More about Knowledge Processing for Web Search – An Integrated Model and Experiments.