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A survey on concept drift adaptation

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Gama, João, Žliobaitė, Indrė, Bifet, Albert, Pechenizkiy, Mykola, Bouchachia, Abdelhamid·2014·ACM Computing Surveys

Abstract

Concept drift primarily refers to an online supervised learning scenario when the relation between the input data and the target variable changes over time. Assuming a general knowledge of supervised learning in this article, we characterize adaptive learning processes; categorize existing strategies for handling concept drift; overview the most representative, distinct, and popular techniques and algorithms; discuss evaluation methodology of adaptive algorithms; and present a set of illustrative applications. The survey covers the different facets of concept drift in an integrated way to reflect on the existing scattered state of the art. Thus, it aims at providing a comprehensive introduction to the concept drift adaptation for researchers, industry analysts, and practitioners.

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  • The phenomena the AI system is modelling are likely to change over time, and the risks and impacts may change with them.

    “particularly as the phenomena the AI system is modelling are likely to change over time, and the risks and impacts may change with them.”

    From Discrimination, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic decision-making (2025) · cites this paper as Gama et al 2014

    Section 2 (Adaptive Learning Algorithms; page not available) says the underlying concept being predicted may change over time. Section 2.3 says a model’s accuracy can then degrade, supporting a change in model performance, but the paper does not address whether the AI system’s broader risks and impacts change with it. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Some relevant records may not be presented to the reviewer because the text used in the abstract is not seen as potentially relevant because of concept ambiguity.

    “It might be that some relevant records are not presented to the reviewer because the text used in the abstract is not seen as potentially relevant because of concept ambiguity [11, 17], which can make finding relevant records challenging.”

    From The SAFE procedure: a practical stopping heuristic for active learning-based screening in systematic reviews and meta-analyses (2024) · cites this paper as [17]

    Section 2.1 discusses classifying news as relevant or not relevant, and Section 5 mentions representation bias in adaptive systems. Neither passage says that relevant records may be withheld from a reviewer because ambiguous concepts in their abstracts make them appear irrelevant. Searches for abstract ambiguity and for relevant items not being presented found no passage addressing that mechanism; page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.72)

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  • Records can be hard to find due to concept ambiguity, different angles from which a subject can be studied, and changes in the meaning of a concept over time (concept drift).

    “Records can be hard to find due to concept ambiguity, the different angles from which a subject can be studied, and changes in the meaning of a concept over time, known as concept drift (Chen et al., 2012; Gama et al., 2014).”
  • Lwakatare et al. and Kim et al. reported the difficulty of specifying desirable datasets.

    “Lwakatare et al. [15] and Kim et al. [40] reported the difficulty of specifying desirable datasets.”
  • Developing the skill set for ML applications is the major challenge related to the software engineering professional practice knowledge area.

    “Developing the skill set for ML applications is the major challenge related to this KA [15,16,27,32,39,40,59].”

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Authors
Gama, J., Žliobaitė, I., Bifet, A., Pechenizkiy, M., & Bouchachia, A.
Affiliations
  • Universidade do Porto (PT)
  • Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (FI)
  • Yahoo (Spain) (ES)
  • Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
  • Bournemouth University (GB)
Venue
ACM Computing Surveys
Published
2014-03
Volume
46
Issue
4
Pages
1-37
ISSN
  • 0360-0300 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7341
OpenAlex
W2099419573
Cited by
3,735
References
171
Citations by year
2026: 688 · 2025: 435 · 2024: 296 · 2023: 345 · 2022: 306 · 2021: 367 · 2020: 327 · 2019: 281 · 2018: 229 · 2017: 197 · 2016: 137 · 2015: 96 · 2014: 27 · 2013: 1
FWCI
151.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Locations
  • ACM Computing Surveys (publishedVersion)
  • TU/e Research Portal (publishedVersion)
  • Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University) (submittedVersion)
  • Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • TU/e Research Portal (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Seventh Framework Programme (251617, ICT-2013-612944)
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
  • COMPETE Program
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
  • Suomen Akatemia (118653)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Data Stream Mining Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research
Keywords
concept drift, online supervised learning, adaptive learning, adaptive algorithms, algorithm evaluation

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