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TY - JOUR
T1 - Multi-Class Fuzzily Weighted Adaptive Boosting-based Self-Organizing Fuzzy Inference Ensemble Systems for Classification
AU - Gu, Xiaowei
AU - Angelov, Plamen
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PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - Adaptive boosting (AdaBoost) is a widely used technique to construct a stronger ensemble classifier by combining a set of weaker ones. Zero-order fuzzy inference systems (FISs) are very powerful prototype-based predictive models for classification, offering both great prediction precision and high user-interpretability. However, the use of zero-order FISs as base classifiers in AdaBoost has not been explored yet. To bridge the gap, in this paper, a novel multi-class fuzzily weighted AdaBoost (FWAdaBoost)-based ensemble system with self-organising fuzzy inference system (SOFIS) as the ensemble component is proposed. To better incorporate SOFIS, FWAdaBoost utilises the confidence scores produced by SOFIS in both sample weight updating and ensemble output generation, resulting in more accurate classification boundaries and greater prediction precision. Numerical examples on a wide range of benchmark classification problems demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.
AB - Adaptive boosting (AdaBoost) is a widely used technique to construct a stronger ensemble classifier by combining a set of weaker ones. Zero-order fuzzy inference systems (FISs) are very powerful prototype-based predictive models for classification, offering both great prediction precision and high user-interpretability. However, the use of zero-order FISs as base classifiers in AdaBoost has not been explored yet. To bridge the gap, in this paper, a novel multi-class fuzzily weighted AdaBoost (FWAdaBoost)-based ensemble system with self-organising fuzzy inference system (SOFIS) as the ensemble component is proposed. To better incorporate SOFIS, FWAdaBoost utilises the confidence scores produced by SOFIS in both sample weight updating and ensemble output generation, resulting in more accurate classification boundaries and greater prediction precision. Numerical examples on a wide range of benchmark classification problems demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach.
U2 - 10.1109/TFUZZ.2021.3126116
DO - 10.1109/TFUZZ.2021.3126116
M3 - Journal article
VL - 30
SP - 3722
EP - 3735
JO - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
SN - 1063-6706
IS - 9
ER -