# Learning from Time-Changing Data with Adaptive Windowing

@inproceedings{Bifet2007LearningFT,
title={Learning from Time-Changing Data with Adaptive Windowing},
author={Albert Bifet and Ricard Gavald{\a}},
booktitle={SDM},
year={2007}
}`
• Published in SDM 2007
• Computer Science
We present a new approach for dealing with distribution change and concept drift when learning from data sequences that may vary with time. We use sliding windows whose size, instead of being fixed a priori, is recomputed online according to the rate of change observed from the data in the window itself: The window will grow automatically when the data is stationary, for greater accuracy, and will shrink automatically when change is taking place, to discard stale data. This delivers the user or…
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