Fuzzy DIFACONN-miner: A novel approach for fuzzy rule extraction from neural networks

Authors:
Sinem Kulluk;Lale ÖZbakıR;Adil BaykasoğLu
Affiliations:
Erciyes University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Kayseri, Turkey;Erciyes University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Kayseri, Turkey;Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, İzmir, Turkey
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are mathematical models inspired from the biological nervous system. They have the ability of predicting, learning from experiences and generalizing from previous examples. An important drawback of ANNs is their very limited explanation capability, mainly due to the fact that knowledge embedded within ANNs is distributed over the activations and the connection weights. Therefore, one of the main challenges in the recent decades is to extract classification rules from ANNs. This paper presents a novel approach to extract fuzzy classification rules (FCR) from ANNs because of the fact that fuzzy rules are more interpretable and cope better with pervasive uncertainty and vagueness with respect to crisp rules. A soft computing based algorithm is developed to generate fuzzy rules based on a data mining tool (DIFACONN-miner), which was recently developed by the authors. Fuzzy DIFACONN-miner algorithm can extract fuzzy classification rules from datasets containing both categorical and continuous attributes. Experimental research on the benchmark datasets and comparisons with other fuzzy rule based classification (FRBC) algorithms has shown that the proposed algorithm yields high classification accuracies and comprehensible rule sets.