This study suggests a method to select core data that will be helpful for machine learning. Specifically, we form a two-dimensional distribution based on the similarity of the training data and compose grids with fixed ratios on the distribution. In each grid, we select data based on the distribution consistency (DC) of the target class data and examine how it affects the classifier. We use CIFAR-10 for the experiment and set various grid ratios from 0.5 to 0.005. The influences of these variables were analyzed with the use of different training data sizes selected based on high-DC, low-DC (inverse of high DC), and random (no criteria) selections. As a result, the average point accuracy at 0.95% (±0.65) and the point accuracy at 1.54% (±0.59) improved for the grid configurations of 0.008 and 0.005, respectively. These outcomes justify an improved performance compared with that of the existing approach (data distribution search). In this study, we confirmed that the learning performance improved when the training data were selected for very small grid and high-DC settings.
Keywords: distribution consistency; learning influence; machine learning; training data similarity.