Computer Science – Neural and Evolutionary Computing
Scientific paper
2010-09-25
Journal of Electronics and Computer Science, Jahangarnagar University, Bangladesh, Vol. 8, pp. 19-30, Jun. 2007
Computer Science
Neural and Evolutionary Computing
12 Pages, International Journal
Scientific paper
This paper describes an efficient rule generation algorithm, called rule generation from artificial neural networks (RGANN) to generate symbolic rules from ANNs. Classification rules are sought in many areas from automatic knowledge acquisition to data mining and ANN rule extraction. This is because classification rules possess some attractive features. They are explicit, understandable and verifiable by domain experts, and can be modified, extended and passed on as modular knowledge. A standard three-layer feedforward ANN is the basis of the algorithm. A four-phase training algorithm is proposed for backpropagation learning. Comparing them to the symbolic rules generated by other methods supports explicitness of the generated rules. Generated rules are comparable with other methods in terms of number of rules, average number of conditions for a rule, and predictive accuracy. Extensive experimental studies on several benchmarks classification problems, including breast cancer, wine, season, golf-playing, and lenses classification demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach with good generalization ability.
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