Creating comprehensible regression models: Inductive learning and optimization of fuzzy regression trees using comprehensible fuzzy predicates

  • Authors:
  • Mario Drobics;Johannes Himmelbauer

  • Affiliations:
  • Software Competence Center Hagenberg, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria;Software Competence Center Hagenberg, 4232, Hagenberg, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Soft Computing - A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications - Special issue on soft computing for information mining
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we will present a novel approach to data-driven fuzzy modeling which aims to create highly accurate but also easily comprehensible models. This is achieved by a three-stage approach which separates the definition of the underlying fuzzy sets, the learning of the initial fuzzy model, and finally a local or global optimization of the resulting model. The benefit of this approach is that it allows to use a language comprising of comprehensible fuzzy predicates and to incorporate expert knowledge by defining problem specific fuzzy predicates. Furthermore, we achieve highly accurate results by applying a regularized optimization technique.