An evidential neural network model for regression based on random fuzzy numbers

DOI10.1007/978-3-031-17801-6_6MaRDI QIDQ6160926zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. Denœux

Publication date 2 June 2023

Published in Belief Functions: Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00647

zbMATH Keywords

machine learningbelief functionsDempster-Shafer theoryevidence theoryrandom fuzzy sets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37)

Abstract: We introduce a distance-based neural network model for regression, in which prediction uncertainty is quantified by a belief function on the real line. The model interprets the distances of the input vector to prototypes as pieces of evidence represented by Gaussian random fuzzy numbers (GRFN's) and combined by the generalized product intersection rule, an operator that extends Dempster's rule to random fuzzy sets. The network output is a GRFN that can be summarized by three numbers characterizing the most plausible predicted value, variability around this value, and epistemic uncertainty. Experiments with real datasets demonstrate the very good performance of the method as compared to state-of-the-art evidential and statistical learning algorithms. keywords{Evidence theory, Dempster-Shafer theory, belief functions, machine learning, random fuzzy sets.

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