Building Interpretable Systems in Real Time
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Abstract
Building interpretable learning machines from data, incrementally, with thecapability for a-posteriori knowledge extraction, is still a big challenge. It is difficult to
avoid some degree of redundancy and unnecessary complexity in the obtained models.
This work presents two alternative ways for building interpretable systems, using fuzzy
models or kernel machines. The goal is to control the complexity of the machine, either
the number of rules or the number of kernels, using incremental learning techniques and
merging of fuzzy sets. In the first case, online implementation of mechanisms for
merging membership functions and rule base simplification, toward evolving first-order
Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems (eTS), is proposed in this chapter in order to improve the
interpretability of the fuzzy models. As a comparative solution, kernel-based methods
may also contribute to the interpretability issue, particularly the incremental learning
algorithms. The interpretability is analyzed based on equivalence principles between
local model networks and Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy inference systems.
A considerable reduction of redundancy and complexity of the models is obtained,
increasing the model transparency and human interpretability. The learning technique
is developed for large spanned evolving first-order Takagi-Sugeno (eTS) fuzzy models.
The benchmark of the Box-Jenkins time-series prediction is used to evaluate the
techniques.
Subject
computational intelligenceBook Chapter
Evolving Intelligent Systems: Methodology and Applications, 6, pp. 127-150, John Willey and Sons, April 2010Cited by
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