A Meta-Learning Architecture based on Linked Data

Abstract

In Machine Learning (ML), there is a lot of research that seek to automate specific processes carried out by data scientists in the generation of knowledge models (predictive, classification, clustering, etc.); however, an open problem is to find mechanisms that allow conferring the ability of self-learning. Thus, a meta-learning mechanism is required to allow ML techniques to self-adapt in order to improve their performance in problem solving, and even in some cases, to induce the learning algorithm itself. In this context, our research defines a meta-learning architecture using Linked Data (LD) for the automatic generation of knowledge models. Specifically, this intelligent architecture is formed by the layers of Knowledge Sources, Meta-Knowledge and Knowledge Modelling, to unify all processes to guarantee a Meta-Learning process. The Knowledge Sources layer is responsible for providing semantic knowledge about the processes of generation of knowledge models; the Meta-Knowledge layer is responsible for controlling the different processes and strategies for the automatic generation of knowledge models; and finally, the Knowledge Modelling layer is responsible for executing ML tasks defined by the Meta-Knowledge layer, among which are the tasks of feature engineering, ML algorithm configuration, model building, among others. Additionally, this article presents a case study to analyze the behavior of the different layers of the architecture, to generate knowledge models. Thus, the main contribution of this research is the definition of a Meta-Learning architecture for ML techniques, which takes advantage of the semantic information described as LD when generating the knowledge models. The preliminary results are very encouraging.