Stellar Spectra Classification with Entropy-Based Learning Machine

Data mining are widely used in the stellar spectra classification. In order to improve the efficiencies of traditional spectra classification methods, Entropy-based Learning Machine (ELM) was proposed in this paper. The entropy was used to describe the uncertainty of classification in ELM. In order to obtain the desired classification efficiencies, the classification uncertainty should be minimized, based on which, we can obtain the optimization problem of ELM. It can be verified that ELM performs well in the binary classification and in the rare spectra mining. Several comparative experiments on the 4 subclasses of K-type spectra, 3 subclasses of F-type spectra and 3 subclasses of G-type spectra from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) verified that ELM performs better than kNN (k Nearest Neighbor) and SVM (Support Vector Machine) in dealing with the problem of stellar spectra classification on the SDSS datasets.