title: A new approach to the extraction of ANN rules and to their generalization capacity through GP.
abstract: Various techniques for the extraction of ANN rules have been used, but most of them have focused on certain types of networks and their training. There are very few methods that deal with ANN rule extraction as systems that are independent of their architecture, training, and internal distribution of weights, connections, and activation functions. This article proposes a methodology for the extraction of ANN rules, regardless of their architecture, and based on genetic programming. The strategy is based on the previous algorithm and aims at achieving the generalization capacity that is characteristic of ANNs by means of symbolic rules that are understandable to human beings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Communications Technologies, University of A Coruña, Faculta de Informática, Campus Elviña s/n, 15192 A Coruña, Spain. juanra@udc.es
authors.forename: Juan R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Rabuñal
authors.forename: Julián
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dorado
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pazos
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rivero
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003663:Decision Trees; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D005823:Genetics; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008961:Models, Structural; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D011336:Probability; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design