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Title: Class decomposition for GA-based classifier agents – A Pitt approach
Authors: Guan, SU
Zhu, F
Keywords: Incremental learning;Genetic algorithms;Classifier agents
Issue Date: 2004
Publisher: IEEE
Citation: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics. 34 (1): 381-392, Feb 2004
Abstract: Incremental learning has been widely addressed in the machine learning literature to cope with learning tasks where the learning environment is ever changing or training samples become available over time. However, most research work explores incremental learning with statistical algorithms or neural networks, rather than evolutionary algorithms. The work in this paper employs genetic algorithms (GAs) as basic learning algorithms for incremental learning within one or more classifier agents in a multi-agent environment. Four new approaches with different initialization schemes are proposed. They keep the old solutions and use an “integration” operation to integrate them with new elements to accommodate new attributes, while biased mutation and crossover operations are adopted to further evolve a reinforced solution. The simulation results on benchmark classification data sets show that the proposed approaches can deal with the arrival of new input attributes and integrate them with the original input space. It is also shown that the proposed approaches can be successfully used for incremental learning and improve classification rates as compared to the retraining GA. Possible applications for continuous incremental training and feature selection are also discussed.
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMCB.2003.817030
ISSN: 1083-4419
Appears in Collections:Electronic and Computer Engineering
Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers

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