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A CS-AdaBoost-BP model for product quality inspection

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Quality inspection is essential in preventing defective products from entering the market. Due to the typically low percentage of defective products, it is generally challenging to detect them using algorithms that aim for the overall classification accuracy. To help solve this problem, we propose an ensemble learning classification model, where we employ adaptive boosting (AdaBoost) to cascade multiple backpropagation (BP) neural networks. Furthermore, cost-sensitive (CS) learning is introduced to adjust the loss function of the basic classifier of the BP neural network. For clarity, this model is called a CS-AdaBoost-BP model. To empirically verify its effectiveness, we use data from home appliance production lines from Bosch. We carry out tenfold cross-validation to evaluate and compare the performance between the CS-AdaBoost-BP model and three existing models: BP neural network, BP neural network based on sampling, and AdaBoost-BP. The results show that our proposed model not only performs better than the other models but also significantly improves the ability to identify defective products. Furthermore, based on the mean value of the Youden index, our proposed model has the highest stability.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province [Grant #LY20G010008] and the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant # 1472169 and 71572187].

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  1. College of Economics and Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, China

    Zengyuan Wu

  2. School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

    Caihong Zhou

  3. Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Fei Xu

  4. Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, China

    Wengao Lou

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Wu, Z., Zhou, C., Xu, F. et al. A CS-AdaBoost-BP model for product quality inspection. Ann Oper Res 308, 685–701 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-020-03798-z

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