Hierarchical Concept Learning by Fuzzy Semantic Cells

Concept modeling and learning have been important research topics in artificial intelligence and knowledge discovery. This paper studies a hierarchical concept learning method that requires a small amount of data to achieve competitive performances. The method starts from a set of fuzzy prototypes c...

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Main Authors: Linna Zhu, Wei Li, Yongchuan Tang
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: MDPI AG 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/bff9272806ac4a3c8eedeec081cad52c
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Summary:Concept modeling and learning have been important research topics in artificial intelligence and knowledge discovery. This paper studies a hierarchical concept learning method that requires a small amount of data to achieve competitive performances. The method starts from a set of fuzzy prototypes called Fuzzy Semantic Cells (FSCs). As a result of FSC parameter optimization, it creates a hierarchical structure of data–prototype–concept. Experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in a classification problem. In particular, when faced with limited training data, our proposed method is comparable with traditional techniques in terms of robustness and generalization ability.