An adaptive multiobjective approach to evolving ART architectures

  • Authors:
  • Assem Kaylani;Michael Georgiopoulos;Mansooreh Mollaghasemi;Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos;Christopher Sentelle;Mingyu Zhong

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL;School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL;Industrial Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL;Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL;School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL;School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the evolution of adaptive resonance theory (ART) neural network architectures (classifiers) using a multiobjective optimization approach. In particular, we propose the use of a multiobjective evolutionary approach to simultaneously evolve the weights and the topology of three well-known ART architectures; fuzzy ARTMAP (FAM), ellipsoidal ARTMAP (EAM), and Gaussian ARTMAP (GAM). We refer to the resulting architectures as MO-GFAM, MO-GEAM, and MO-GGAM, and collectively as MO-GART. The major advantage of MO-GART is that it produces a number of solutions for the classification problem at hand that have different levels of merit [accuracy on unseen data (generalization) and size (number of categories created)]. MO-GART is shown to be more elegant (does not require user intervention to define the network parameters), more effective (of better accuracy and smaller size), and more efficient (faster to produce the solution networks) than other ART neural network architectures that have appeared in the literature. Furthermore, MO-GART is shown to be competitive with other popular classifiers, such as classification and regression tree (CART) and support vector machines (SVMs).