ARIS: A Noise Insensitive Data Pre-Processing Scheme for Data Reduction Using Influence Space

Abstract

The extensive growth of data quantity has posed many challenges to data analysis and retrieval. Noise and redundancy are typical representatives of the above-mentioned challenges, which may reduce the reliability of analysis and retrieval results and increase storage and computing overhead. To solve the above problems, a two-stage data pre-processing framework for noise identification and data reduction, called ARIS, is proposed in this article. The first stage identifies and removes noises by the following steps: First, the influence space (IS) is introduced to elaborate data distribution. Second, a ranking factor (RF) is defined to describe the possibility that the points are regarded as noises, then, the definition of noise is given based on RF. Third, a clean dataset (CD) is obtained by removing noise from the original dataset. The second stage learns representative data and realizes data reduction. In this process, CD is divided into multiple small regions by IS. Then the reduced dataset is formed by collecting the representations of each region. The performance of ARIS is verified by experiments on artificial and real datasets. Experimental results show that ARIS effectively weakens the impact of noise and reduces the amount of data and significantly improves the accuracy of data analysis within a reasonable time cost range.