Combining Prior Symbolic Knowledge and Constructive Neural Network Learning |
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Authors: | JUSTIN FLETCHER ZORAN OBRADOVI[Cgrave] |
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Affiliation: | School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University , Pullman , WA , 99164-2752 , USA |
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Abstract: | The concepts of knowledge-based systems and machine learning are combined by integrating an expert system and a constructive neural networks learning algorithm. Two approaches are explored: embedding the expert system directly and converting the expert system rule base into a neural network. This initial system is then extended by constructively learning additional hidden units in a problem-specific manner. Experiments performed indicate that generalization of a combined system surpasses that of each system individually. |
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Keywords: | Constructive algorithms hybrid networks machine learning |
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