Locally Weighted Learning for Control

Lazy learning methods provide useful representations and training algorithms for learning about complex phenomena during autonomous adaptive control of complex systems. This paper surveys ways in which locally weighted learning, a type of lazy learning, has been applied by us to control tasks. We explain various forms that control tasks can take, and how this affects the choice of learning paradigm. The discussion section explores the interesting impact that explicitly remembering all previous experiences has on the problem of learning to control.     

一种基于局部加权回归的分类方法

分类是数据挖掘和数据分析中最有应用价值的技术之一。传统的积极学习方法需要预先对模型空间进行假设,并且没有充分考虑到实例之间的相关性,其泛化能力将会受到一定程度的影响。针对上述问题,提出了一种基于新型映射关系的局部加权回归方法 MLWR。该算法首先找出测试样本在训练集中的近邻样本,然后建立测试样本和近邻样本的回归函数,根据建立的回归模型和近邻样本的标签,计算得到测试样本的标签。实验与当前流行的多种分类方法在UCI的9个数据集上进行测试。实验结果表明我们的方法能有效地提高分类精度,对较大样本数据也有较好的适用性。     

Intelligent Selection of Instances for Prediction Functions in Lazy Learning Algorithms

Lazy learning methods for function prediction use different prediction functions. Given a set of stored instances, a similarity measure, and a novel instance, a prediction function determines the value of the novel instance. A prediction function consists of three components: a positive integer k specifying the number of instances to be selected, a method for selecting the k instances, and a method for calculating the value of the novel instance given the k selected instances. This paper introduces a novel method called k surrounding neighbor (k-SN) for intelligently selecting instances and describes a simple k-SN algorithm. Unlike k nearest neighbor (k-NN), k-SN selects k instances that surround the novel instance. We empirically compared k-SN with k-NN using the linearly weighted average and local weighted regression methods. The experimental results show that k-SN outperforms k-NN with linearly weighted average and performs slightly better than k-NN with local weighted regression for the selected datasets.     

面向用户的支持用户掉线的联邦学习数据隐私保护方法

联邦学习是解决多组织协同训练问题的一种有效手段,但是现有的联邦学习存在不支持用户掉线、模型API泄露敏感信息等问题。文章提出一种面向用户的支持用户掉线的联邦学习数据隐私保护方法,可以在用户掉线和保护的模型参数下训练出一个差分隐私扰动模型。该方法利用联邦学习框架设计了基于深度学习的数据隐私保护模型,主要包含两个执行协议:服务器和用户执行协议。用户在本地训练一个深度模型,在本地模型参数上添加差分隐私扰动,在聚合的参数上添加掉线用户的噪声和,使得联邦学习过程满足(ε,δ)-差分隐私。实验表明,当用户数为50、ε=1时,可以在模型隐私性与可用性之间达到平衡。     

Self-organizing learning array and its application to economic and financial problems

A new self-organizing learning array (SOLAR) system has been implemented in software. It is an information theory based learning machine capable of handling a wide variety of classification problems. It has self-reconfigurable processing cells (neurons) and an evolvable system structure. Entropy based learning is performed locally at each neuron, where neural functions and connections that correspond to the minimum entropy are adaptively learned. By choosing connections for each neuron, the system sets up the wiring and completes its self-organization. SOLAR classifies input data based on weighted statistical information from all neurons. Unlike artificial neural networks, its multi-layer structure scales well to large systems capable of solving complex pattern recognition and classification tasks. This paper shows its application in economic and financial fields. A reference to influence diagrams is also discussed. Several prediction and classification cases are studied. The results have been compared with the existing methods.     

Local Adaptive Subspace Regression

Incremental learning of sensorimotor transformations in high dimensional spaces is one of the basic prerequisites for the success of autonomous robot devices as well as biological movement systems. So far, due to sparsity of data in high dimensional spaces, learning in such settings required a significant amount of prior knowledge about the learning task, usually provided by a human expert. In this paper we suggest a partial revision of the view. Based on empirical studies, we observed that, despite being globally high dimensional and sparse, data distributions from physical movement systems are locally low dimensional and dense. Under this assumption, we derive a learning algorithm, Locally Adaptive Subspace Regression, that exploits this property by combining a dynamically growing local dimensionality reduction technique as a preprocessing step with a nonparametric learning technique, locally weighted regression, that also learns the region of validity of the regression. The usefulness of the algorithm and the validity of its assumptions are illustrated for a synthetic data set, and for data of the inverse dynamics of human arm movements and an actual 7 degree-of-freedom anthropomorphic robot arm.     

基于变权重迁移学习的BN参数学习算法

针对小数据集条件下的贝叶斯网络(Bayesian network,BN)参数估计困难问题,提出了一种基于变权重迁移学习(DWTL)的BN参数学习算法。首先,利用MAP和MLE方法学习得到目标域初始参数和各源域参数;然后根据不同源域数据样本贡献的不同计算源权重因子;接着基于目标域样本统计量与小数据集样本阈值的关系设计了目标域初始参数和源域参数的平衡系数;最后,基于上述参数、源权重因子和平衡系数计算得到新的目标参数。在实验研究中,通过对经典BN模型的参数学习问题验证了DWTL算法的有效性;针对小数据集下的轴承故障诊断问题,相较于传统迁移学习(LP)算法,DWTL算法学习精度提高了10%。实验结果表明:所提出的算法能够较好地解决样本数据集在相对稀缺条件下的目标参数建模问题。     

Design of highly effective multilayer feedforward neural network by using genetic algorithm

This paper presents a highly effective and precise neural network method for choosing the activation functions (AFs) and tuning the learning parameters (LPs) of a multilayer feedforward neural network by using a genetic algorithm (GA). The performance of the neural network mainly depends on the learning algorithms and the network structure. The backpropagation learning algorithm is used for tuning the network connection weights, and the LPs are obtained by the GA to provide both fast and reliable learning. Also, the AFs of each neuron in the network are automatically chosen by a GA. The present study consists of 10 different functions to accomplish a better convergence of the desired input–output mapping. Test studies are performed to solve a set of two-dimensional regression problems for the proposed genetic-based neural network (GNN) and conventional neural network having sigmoid AFs and constant learning parameters. The proposed GNN has also been tested by applying it to three real problems in the fields of environment, medicine, and economics. Obtained results prove that the proposed GNN is more effective and reliable when compared with the classical neural network structure.     

Naive Bayes text classifiers: a locally weighted learning approach

Due to being fast, easy to implement and relatively effective, some state-of-the-art naive Bayes text classifiers with the strong assumption of conditional independence among attributes, such as multinomial naive Bayes, complement naive Bayes and the one-versus-all-but-one model, have received a great deal of attention from researchers in the domain of text classification. In this article, we revisit these naive Bayes text classifiers and empirically compare their classification performance on a large number of widely used text classification benchmark datasets. Then, we propose a locally weighted learning approach to these naive Bayes text classifiers. We call our new approach locally weighted naive Bayes text classifiers (LWNBTC). LWNBTC weakens the attribute conditional independence assumption made by these naive Bayes text classifiers by applying the locally weighted learning approach. The experimental results show that our locally weighted versions significantly outperform these state-of-the-art naive Bayes text classifiers in terms of classification accuracy.