Exploring comprehensible classification rules from trained neural networks integrated with a time-varying binary particle swarm optimizer |
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Authors: | Lale Ö zbak?r,Y?lmaz Delice |
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Affiliation: | a Erciyes University, Engineering Faculty, Department of Industrial Engineering, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey b Erciyes University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey |
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Abstract: | PurposeExtracting comprehensible classification rules is the most emphasized concept in data mining researches. In order to obtain accurate and comprehensible classification rules from databases, a new approach is proposed by combining advantages of artificial neural networks (ANN) and swarm intelligence.MethodArtificial neural networks (ANNs) are a group of very powerful tools applied to prediction, classification and clustering in different domains. The main disadvantage of this general purpose tool is the difficulties in its interpretability and comprehensibility. In order to eliminate these disadvantages, a novel approach is developed to uncover and decode the information hidden in the black-box structure of ANNs. Therefore, in this paper a study on knowledge extraction from trained ANNs for classification problems is carried out. The proposed approach makes use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to transform the behaviors of trained ANNs into accurate and comprehensible classification rules. Particle swarm optimization with time varying inertia weight and acceleration coefficients is designed to explore the best attribute-value combination via optimizing ANN output function.ResultsThe weights hidden in trained ANNs turned into comprehensible classification rule set with higher testing accuracy rates compared to traditional rule based classifiers. |
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Keywords: | Artificial neural networks Particle swarm optimization Rule extraction Data mining Classification |
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