This paper proposes Auto-MEKAGGP, an Automated Machine Learning (Auto-ML) method for Multi-Label Classification (MLC) based on the MEKA tool, which offers a number of MLC algorithms. In MLC, each example can be associated with one or more class labels, making MLC problems harder than conventional (single-label) classification problems. Hence, it is essential to select an MLC algorithm and its configuration tailored (optimized) for the input dataset. Auto-MEKAGGP addresses this problem with two key ideas. First, a large number of choices of MLC algorithms and configurations from MEKA are represented into a grammar. Second, our proposed Grammar-based Genetic Programming (GGP) method uses that grammar to search for the best MLC algorithm and configuration for the input dataset. Auto-MEKAGGP was tested in 10 datasets and compared to two well-known MLC methods, namely Binary Relevance and Classifier Chain, and also compared to GA-Auto-MLC, a genetic algorithm we recently proposed for the same task. Two versions of Auto-MEKAGGP were tested: a full version with the proposed grammar, and a simplified version where the grammar includes only the algorithmic components used by GA-Auto-MLC. Overall, the full version of Auto-MEKAGGP achieved the best predictive accuracy among all five evaluated methods, being the winner in six out of the 10 datasets.
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