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Evaluation of hydrocarbon reservoir requires classification of petrophysical properties from available dataset. However, characterization of reservoir attributes is difficult due to the nonlinear and heterogeneous nature of the subsurface physical properties. In this context, present study proposes a generalized one class classification framework based on Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) to classify a reservoir characteristic water saturation into two classes (Class high and Class low) from four logs namely gamma ray, neutron porosity, bulk density, and P sonic using an imbalanced dataset. A comparison is carried out among proposed framework and different supervised classification algorithms in terms of g metric means and execution time. Experimental results show that proposed framework has outperformed other classifiers in terms of these performance evaluators. It is envisaged that the classification analysis performed in this study will be useful in further reservoir modeling.
Water saturation is an important property in reservoir engineering domain. Thus, satisfactory classification of water saturation from seismic attributes is beneficial for reservoir characterization. However, diverse and non-linear nature of subsurface attributes makes the classification task difficult. In this context, this paper proposes a generalized Support Vector Data Description (SVDD) based novel classification framework to classify water saturation into two classes (Class high and Class low) from three seismic attributes seismic impedance, amplitude envelop, and seismic sweetness. G-metric means and program execution time are used to quantify the performance of the proposed framework along with established supervised classifiers. The documented results imply that the proposed framework is superior to existing classifiers. The present study is envisioned to contribute in further reservoir modeling.
Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) has achieved great success in overcoming the difficulties of labeling and making full use of unlabeled data. However, SSL has a limited assumption that the numbers of samples in different classes are balanced, and many SSL algorithms show lower performance for the datasets with the imbalanced class distribution. In this paper, we introduce a task of class-imbalanced semi-supervised learning (CISSL), which refers to semi-supervised learning with class-imbalanced data. In doing so, we consider class imbalance in both labeled and unlabeled sets. First, we analyze existing SSL methods in imbalanced environments and examine how the class imbalance affects SSL methods. Then we propose Suppressed Consistency Loss (SCL), a regularization method robust to class imbalance. Our method shows better performance than the conventional methods in the CISSL environment. In particular, the more severe the class imbalance and the smaller the size of the labeled data, the better our method performs.
We propose to reinterpret a standard discriminative classifier of p(y|x) as an energy based model for the joint distribution p(x,y). In this setting, the standard class probabilities can be easily computed as well as unnormalized values of p(x) and p(x|y). Within this framework, standard discriminative architectures may beused and the model can also be trained on unlabeled data. We demonstrate that energy based training of the joint distribution improves calibration, robustness, andout-of-distribution detection while also enabling our models to generate samplesrivaling the quality of recent GAN approaches. We improve upon recently proposed techniques for scaling up the training of energy based models and presentan approach which adds little overhead compared to standard classification training. Our approach is the first to achieve performance rivaling the state-of-the-artin both generative and discriminative learning within one hybrid model.
Topological data analysis aims to extract topological quantities from data, which tend to focus on the broader global structure of the data rather than local information. The Mapper method, specifically, generalizes clustering methods to identify significant global mathematical structures, which are out of reach of many other approaches. We propose a classifier based on applying the Mapper algorithm to data projected onto a latent space. We obtain the latent space by using PCA or autoencoders. Notably, a classifier based on the Mapper method is immune to any gradient based attack, and improves robustness over traditional CNNs (convolutional neural networks). We report theoretical justification and some numerical experiments that confirm our claims.
We design a classifier for transactional datasets with application in malware detection. We build the classifier based on the minimum description length (MDL) principle. This involves selecting a model that best compresses the training dataset for each class considering the MDL criterion. To select a model for a dataset, we first use clustering followed by closed frequent pattern mining to extract a subset of closed frequent patterns (CFPs). We show that this method acts as a pattern summarization method to avoid pattern explosion; this is done by giving priority to longer CFPs, and without requiring to extract all CFPs. We then use the MDL criterion to further summarize extracted patterns, and construct a code table of patterns. This code table is considered as the selected model for the compression of the dataset. We evaluate our classifier for the problem of static malware detection in portable executable (PE) files. We consider API calls of PE files as their distinguishing features. The presence-absence of API calls forms a transactional dataset. Using our proposed method, we construct two code tables, one for the benign training dataset, and one for the malware training dataset. Our dataset consists of 19696 benign, and 19696 malware samples, each a binary sequence of size 22761. We compare our classifier with deep neural networks providing us with the state-of-the-art performance. The comparison shows that our classifier performs very close to deep neural networks. We also discuss that our classifier is an interpretable classifier. This provides the motivation to use this type of classifiers where some degree of explanation is required as to why a sample is classified under one class rather than the other class.