A Comparison Study on Rule Extraction from Neural Network Ensembles, Boosted Shallow Trees, and SVMs
Joint Authors
Source
Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-20, 20 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-01-09
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
20
Main Subjects
Information Technology and Computer Science
Abstract EN
One way to make the knowledge stored in an artificial neural network more intelligible is to extract symbolic rules.
However, producing rules from Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs) is an NP-hard problem.
Many techniques have been introduced to generate rules from single neural networks, but very few were proposed for ensembles.
Moreover, experiments were rarely assessed by 10-fold cross-validation trials.
In this work, based on the Discretized Interpretable Multilayer Perceptron (DIMLP), experiments were performed on 10 repetitions of stratified 10-fold cross-validation trials over 25 binary classification problems.
The DIMLP architecture allowed us to produce rules from DIMLP ensembles, boosted shallow trees (BSTs), and Support Vector Machines (SVM).
The complexity of rulesets was measured with the average number of generated rules and average number of antecedents per rule.
From the 25 used classification problems, the most complex rulesets were generated from BSTs trained by “gentle boosting” and “real boosting.” Moreover, we clearly observed that the less complex the rules were, the better their fidelity was.
In fact, rules generated from decision stumps trained by modest boosting were, for almost all the 25 datasets, the simplest with the highest fidelity.
Finally, in terms of average predictive accuracy and average ruleset complexity, the comparison of some of our results to those reported in the literature proved to be competitive.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bologna, Guido& Hayashi, Yoichi. 2018. A Comparison Study on Rule Extraction from Neural Network Ensembles, Boosted Shallow Trees, and SVMs. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1117050
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bologna, Guido& Hayashi, Yoichi. A Comparison Study on Rule Extraction from Neural Network Ensembles, Boosted Shallow Trees, and SVMs. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1117050
American Medical Association (AMA)
Bologna, Guido& Hayashi, Yoichi. A Comparison Study on Rule Extraction from Neural Network Ensembles, Boosted Shallow Trees, and SVMs. Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-20.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1117050
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1117050