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In one-class classification (OCC) tasks, only the target class (class-of-interest (CoI)) samples are well defined during training, whereas the other class samples are totally absent. In OCC algorithms, the high dimensional data adds computational overhead apart from its intrinsic property of curse of dimensionality. For target class learning, conventional dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques are not suitable due to negligence of the unique statistical properties of CoI samples. In this context, the present research proposes a novel target class guided DR technique to extract the eigen knowledge grid that contains the most promising eigenvectors of variance-covariance matrix of CoI samples. In this process the lower and higher eigenvalued eigenvectors are rejected via statistical analysis because the high variance may split the target class itself, whereas the lower variance do not contribute significant information. Furthermore, the identified eigen knowledge grid is utilized to transform high dimensional samples to the lower dimensional eigen subspace. The proposed approach is named as learning target class eigen subspace (LTS-ES) that ensures strong separation of the target class from other classes. To show the effectiveness of transformed lower dimensional eigen subspace, oneclass support vector machine (OCSVM) has been experimented on wide variety of benchmark datasets in presence of: original feature space, transformed features obtained via eigenvectors of approximately 80%-90% cumulative variance, transformed features obtained via knowledge grid and transformed features obtained via eigenvectors of approximately 50% cumulative variance. Finally, a new performance measure parameter called stability factor is introduced to validate the robustness of the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existing dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques such as principal component analysis (PCA) and its variants are not suitable for target class mining due to the negligence of unique statistical properties of class-of-interest (CoI) samples. Conventionally, these approaches utilize higher or lower eigenvalued principal components (PCs) for data transformation; but the higher eigenvalued PCs may split the target class, whereas lower eigenvalued PCs do not contribute significant information and wrong selection of PCs leads to performance degradation. Considering these facts, the present research offers a novel target class-guided feature extraction method. In this approach, initially, the eigendecomposition is performed on variance–covariance matrix of only the target class samples, where the higher- and lower-valued eigenvectors are rejected via statistical analysis, and the selected eigenvectors are utilized to extract the most promising feature subspace. The extracted feature-subset gives a more tighter description of the CoI with enhanced associativity among target class samples and ensures the strong separation from nontarget class samples. One-class support vector machine (OCSVM) is evaluated to validate the performance of learned features. To obtain optimized values of hyperparameters of OCSVM a novel N -ary search-based autonomous method is also proposed. Exhaustive experiments with a wide variety of datasets are performed in feature-space (original and reduced) and eigenspace (obtained from original and reduced features) to validate the performance of the proposed approach in terms of accuracy, precision, specificity and sensitivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]