Improving generalization in the XCSF classifier system using linear least-squares

  • Authors:
  • Daniele Loiacono;Pier Luca Lanzi

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy;Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual workshop on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

XCSF is an extension of XCS in which classifier prediction is computed as a linear combination of classifier inputs and a weight vector associated to each classifier. XCSF can adjust the weight vector of classifiers to evolve accurate piecewise linear approximations of functions. The Widrow-Hoff rule, used to update the weight vectors, prevents (when some conditions hold) XCSF from exploiting the expected piece-wise linear approximation. In this paper we replace the Widrow-Hoff rule with linear least-squares and we show that with this improvement XCSF can fully exploit its generalization capabilities.