Improving Convergence of Parameter Tuning Process of the Additive Fuzzy System by New Learning Strategy

An additive fuzzy system comprising m rules with n inputs and p outputs in each rule has at least t m(2n + 2 p + 1) parameters needing to be tuned. The system consists of a large number of if-then fuzzy rules and takes a long time to tune its parameters especially in the case of a large amount of training data samples. In this paper, a new learning strategy is investigated to cope with this obstacle. Parameters that tend toward constant values at the learning process are initially fixed and they are not tuned till the end of the learning time. Experiments based on applications of the additive fuzzy system in function approximation demonstrate that the proposed approach reduces the learning time and hence improves convergence speed considerably.

Authors:

• Thi Nguyen
• Lee Gordon-Brown
• Jim Peterson
• Peter Wheeler

Keywords:

• Additive fuzzy system
• improving convergence
• parameter learning process
• unsupervised learning.

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