no code implementations • 23 Aug 2017 • Johanna Ärje, Jenni Raitoharju, Alexandros Iosifidis, Ville Tirronen, Kristian Meissner, Moncef Gabbouj, Serkan Kiranyaz, Salme Kärkkäinen
Contrary to previous findings in the literature, we find that for machines following a typical flat classification approach commonly used in machine learning performs better than forcing machines to adopt a hierarchical, local per parent node approach used by human taxonomic experts ($\overline{CE}=13. 8\%$).